On Saturday 29 April 2006 11:27 am, Peter Krantz wrote: > DateTime has the same limit (I believe it uses the Time library as > well). Date does not support time. irb(main):001:0> require 'date' => true irb(main):002:0> long_time_from_now = DateTime.new(3006,04,29,17,5,25) => #<DateTime: 9742799965/3456,0,2299161> irb(main):003:0> long_time_from_now.asctime => "Tue Apr 29 17:05:25 3006" Kirk Haines