Bug #4975: DateTime.civil calculates seconds incorrectly with fractional offsets

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-darwin10.7.4]

[jfelchner (Jeff Felchner)]

Ruby Version 1.9.2p180

DateTime.civil(2011, 5, 13, 17, 31, 13, -0.25).sec # => 12

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to tadf (tadayoshi funaba)

[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected
• Priority changed from Normal to 3

The contagion of flonum affects the determination of date and time.
You may give it as a rational number or a string.

DateTime.new(2011,5,13,17,31,13,Rational('-0.25'))
#=> #<DateTime: 2011-05-13T17:31:13-06:00 (212172089473/86400,-1/4,2299161)>

DateTime.new(2011,5,13,17,31,13,Rational(-1,4))
#=> #<DateTime: 2011-05-13T17:31:13-06:00 (212172089473/86400,-1/4,2299161)>

DateTime.new(2011,5,13,17,31,13,'-06:00')
#=> #<DateTime: 2011-05-13T17:31:13-06:00 (212172089473/86400,-1/4,2299161)>