Issue #4644 has been reported by Stefan Radomski. ---------------------------------------- Bug #4644: DateTime.new does not work with Float http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4644 Author: Stefan Radomski Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: lib Target version: ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [x86_64-linux] When initializing a DateTime object, one can pass seconds as Floats, like 5.5. The decimals get added to sec_fraction. This works great in Ruby 1.9, but not in 1.8. It fails in Line 527 of the "date.rb":http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-18/repository/entry/lib/date.rb#L527 with the message "NoMethodError: undefined method `to_r' for 7325.5:Float". -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org