Scott wrote, On 11/19/2006 9:50 PM:
> It seems that on line 1261 of date.rb (inside the DateTime class), the
> 'today' method is undefined.  For more information on Date, DateTime,
> and Time, you may want to check out Sam Smoot's article on the subject:
> http://substantiality.net/articles/2006/10/16/date-time-and-datetime-in-ruby
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Thanks for that link... Someone else brought that line to my attention 
as well.

> -Scott
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> Sammy Larbi wrote:
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>> So, I was playing around a little in Ruby and noticed that |DateTime| is
>> a subclass of |Date|, yet the method |today| is not defined for it.
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>> I can certainly see how it doesn't make sense to have that method for
>> that class, but I'm wondering why a Date isn't a DateTime?  I suppose
>> then we'd be removing the time element, so we'd get the same problem...
>> but it was just striking is all.
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