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Times farthest in the past and farthest in the future that can be represented?
Is it absolute moments in time, or distance in time from the present moment?
I couldn’t find it in the docs for the Time class.
Does it depend on the system? If so, how can I access it in my code?
UPDATE
After some experimentation, I found that it’s from about 108 years in the past to about 29 years in the future. Still wondering if it’s system dependent.
DateTime (in the Date library, included with ruby) goes back to 1 January 4713 BCE and farther into the future than you are likely to need.