duerst (Martin Dürst) wrote in #note-6: > Here is another proposal: Why not count using administrative/fiscal years? The administrative/fiscal year (年度 ('nendo') in Japanese, as opposed to simply 年 for (calendar) year) starts on April 1...jinroq (Jinroq SAITOH)
shugo (Shugo Maeda) wrote in #note-2: > Under current Japanese law, a person's age increases at midnight on the day before their birthday. However, it might be better to use the traditional 'Kazeidoshi' (East Asian age reckoning) syste...jinroq (Jinroq SAITOH)
ufuk (Ufuk Kayserilioglu) wrote in #note-1: > I think these methods should live on the new `Ruby` module as `Ruby.birthday` and `Ruby.age` instead: > ... That's a great insight! Moving these to a Ruby module makes the intent much clear...jinroq (Jinroq SAITOH)
ko1 (Koichi Sasada) wrote: > In Japan, legal texts must write all characters - including digits - using full-width or kanji forms. As a result, the encoding name "UTF-8" > ... Should "UTF-" also be full-width ("ＵＴＦ−")?jinroq (Jinroq SAITOH)
Since its inception in 1993, Ruby has grown beyond a mere programming language to become a rich culture beloved by developers worldwide. However, the standard `date` library surprisingly lacks a formal interface to commemorate Ruby's own...jinroq (Jinroq SAITOH)
## Motivation The date library is being [rewritten from C to pure Ruby](https://github.com/ruby/date/pull/155). During this effort, `Date._strptime` was identified as a major performance bottleneck. Profiling revealed that the root ca...jinroq (Jinroq SAITOH)
Thanks for your advices! After careful consideration, I've concluded that the date library shouldn't be deprecated. An alternative solution would be to rewrite the date library from C to Ruby, so that any programmer who understands Ruby ...jinroq (Jinroq SAITOH)
jinroq (Jinroq SAITOH)04:24 AM Ruby Feature #21972: Add Date.birthday and Date.age to track Ruby's milestones