Hi,

In message "Re: Time.utc! and Time.localtime!"
    on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:56:21 +0900, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov writes:

|   class Time
|     alias_method "__utc__", "utc"
|     alias_method "utc!", "__utc__"
|     def utc *a, &b
|       warn "#utc method will change - use #utc! for self modifying behaviour!"
|       __utc__ *a, &b
|     end
|   end
|
|an some time might be enough to make the transition.

I don't think this is good for transition, just because new code would
still get complained.

							matz.