- Aug 28, 2026 — [Adventures in Daylight Saving, Norfolk Island, and Time Zone Math (in Ruby)](/2026/08/28/adventures-in-daylight-saving-norfolk-island-and-time-zone-math-in-ruby.html)

distance\_of\_time\_in\_words is a small Ruby gem that turns two Time objects into a human-readable string like “3 days and 4 hours”. Several separate bug reports against it turned ...

- Aug 25, 2018 — [Storing Timestamps in MongoDB with Mongoid](/2018/08/25/storing-timestamps-in-mongodb-with-mongoid.html)

Coming from mongoid-locker#57, in which I, too, wasn’t sure whether calling .utc on a timestamp was necessary with Mongoid.

- Jan 9, 2010 — [Living in Adelaide, GMT+9:30](/2010/01/09/living-in-adelaide-gmt930.html)

Someone kindly reported a bug entitled “Times Rounding Off” on FoodCandy.