Hi,

> Actually, I think that the 10-argument form of Time.local/mktime is deprecated.
> You should really be using the 1-to-8 argument forms, which have no wday or
> yday fields at all:
> 
>         Time.mktime(year[, month[, day[, hour[, min[, sec[, msec[, zone]]]]]]])

The reason why I was trying to do it the way I was doing it was because the
data I was looking at had the day of the year and not the day of the month.
I really would be using this if I had the day of the month readily
available---the question wouldn't even have come up in the first place if it
weren't for that.  I've used the `date' library together with Time as a
workaround, but it's not the way I would prefer to do it.

R