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authorMichael Koziarski <michael@koziarski.com>2006-03-09 07:37:51 +0000
committerMichael Koziarski <michael@koziarski.com>2006-03-09 07:37:51 +0000
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Added a note to the documentation for the Date related Numeric extensions to indicate that they're
approximations and shouldn't be used for critical calculations. [Koz]. Closes #4148. References #4146 git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@3821 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb
index de726281b8..a69a6c5f64 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
module Numeric #:nodoc:
- # Enables the use of time calculations and declarations, like 45.minutes + 2.hours + 4.years
+ # Enables the use of time calculations and declarations, like 45.minutes + 2.hours + 4.years.
+ #
+ # Some of these methods are approximations, Ruby's core
+ # Date[http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/date/rdoc/index.html] and
+ # Time[http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/time/rdoc/index.html] should be used for precision
+ # date and time arithmetic
module Time
def minutes
self * 60