Tristan Chong t33chong

When should you use DateTime and when should you use Time?

It's a common misconception that [William Shakespeare][1] and [Miguel de Cervantes][2] died on the same day in history - so much so that UNESCO named April 23 as [World Book Day because of this fact][3]. However because England hadn't yet adopted [Gregorian Calendar Reform][4] (and wouldn't until [1752][5]) their deaths are actually 10 days apart. Since Ruby's Time class implements a [proleptic Gregorian calendar][6] and has no concept of calendar reform then there's no way to express this. This is where DateTime steps in:

>> shakespeare = DateTime.iso8601('1616-04-23', Date::ENGLAND)
=> Tue, 23 Apr 1616 00:00:00 +0000
>> cervantes = DateTime.iso8601('1616-04-23', Date::ITALY)
=> Sat, 23 Apr 1616 00:00:00 +0000

	import urllib2
	import re
	import sys
	from collections import defaultdict
	from random import random

	"""
	PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS QUOTED CODE FOR THE SAKE OF daemonology's SERVER, IT IS
	NOT MY SERVER AND I FEEL BAD FOR ABUSING IT. JUST GET THE RESULTS OF THE
	CRAWL HERE: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=nqpsnTtW AND SAVE THEM TO "archive.txt"

	class Foo(object):
	def bar(self):
	pass

	def baz(self):
	pass

	from mock import patch

	@patch('path.to.module.S3Library')
	def test_stores_data_in_s3(S3Library):
	my_method(data)
	assert S3Library.upload_file.called_once_with(data)

	@patch('path.to.module.S3Library')
	def test_data_contains_some_value(S3Library):
	S3Library.get_file.return_value = _stub_data()

	#cloud-config

	coreos:
	etcd:
	# generate a new token for each unique cluster from https://discovery.etcd.io/new
	discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/<token>
	# multi-region deployments, multi-cloud deployments, and droplets without
	# private networking need to use $public_ipv4
	addr: $private_ipv4:4001
	peer-addr: $private_ipv4:7001

	language: ruby
	rvm:
	- 2.0.0
	script: bundle exec rspec
	before_install:
	- gem update --system
	services:
	- redis-server