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January 1st 0001 is actually January 3rd 0001 or is it?

RobL on November 18, 2023

I came across a rather strange bug in some client code yesterday which had me stumped for quite some time. They're using a date_select to present t...
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Paweł Świątkowski • • Edited

Heh, on my machine Time.new(1,1,1) gives:

=> 0001-01-01 00:00:00 +0124
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WTF is +0124 timezone 😅

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Simon Green • • Edited

The standard 15 minute offsets from UTC is only around a century old. Wikipedia states +1:24 offset was used in Warsaw before they moved to CET in 1915 (108 years ago).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B01:24

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RobL •

Ow wow, I love this. Time in a an endless wonder.