Ruby on Rails Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Robert Walker wrote:
> Time without data is useless and extremely prone to error. Internally
> time is stored as millisecond offsets from a reference date (e.g. UNIX
> time is the number of milliseconds from midnight January 1, 1970 UTC).
> The date and time related objects in Ruby depend on this underlying
> offset.

Correction: Time without date...
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