Time is now a Bignum

Another consequence of the passing of the middle of the epoch
(ruby-talk:89261) is that Time.now.to_i is now a Bignum. Plan accordingly…

very valuable info for me - thanks joel

-a

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:08:24 +0900
From: Joel VanderWerf vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: Time is now a Bignum

Another consequence of the passing of the middle of the epoch
(ruby-talk:89261) is that Time.now.to_i is now a Bignum. Plan accordingly…

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