From fab22d5d299de40e48da528915374dc42d46ff00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tadf Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 21:25:11 +0000 Subject: * NEWS: wrote about changes of date. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@31921 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- NEWS | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 73e8e909db..65a6a7f9fe 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -98,6 +98,47 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file. the precision of the receiver BigDecimal to produce the digits of a BigDecimal from the given Rational. +* date + + * Accepts flonum explicitly with limitations. + * If the given offset is flonum, DateTime assumes its precision is + at most second. + + DateTime.new(2001,2,3,0,0,0,3.0/24) == + DateTime.new(2001,2,3,0,0,0,'+03:00') + #=> true + + * If the given operand for -/+ is flonum, DateTime assumes its + precision is at most nanosecond. + + DateTime.new(2001,2,3) + 0.5 == DateTime.new(2001,2,3,12) + #=> true + + * Precision of offset is always at most second. + + Rational('0.5') == Rational('0.500001') #=> false + DateTime.new(2001,2,3,0,0,0,Rational('0.5')) == + DateTime.new(2001,2,3,0,0,0,Rational('0.500001')) + #=> true + + * Ignores long offset and far reform day (with warning). + + * Now accepts only: + + -1<=offset<=1 (-24:00..+24:00) + 2298874<=start<=2426355 or -/+oo + (proleptic Gregorian/Julian mean -/+oo) + + * A method strftime cannot produce huge output (same as Time's one). + + * Even though Date/DateTime can handle far dates, the following gives + an empty string: + + DateTime.new(1<<10000).strftime('%Y') #=> "" + + * Changed the format of inspect. + * Changed the format of marshal (but, can load old dumps). + * io/console * new methods: * IO#noecho {|io| } -- cgit v1.2.3