<p>Working with dates in ruby and rails on windows, I'm having problems with pre-epoch dates (before 1970) throwing out of range exceptions. I tried using both <a href="http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Time.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>Time</code></a> and <a href="http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/date/rdoc/DateTime.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>DateTime</code></a> objects, but still have the same problems.</p>

If you only need dates (no times), the
```
Date
```
class in ruby should handle dates before 1970. But it has only a resolution of days. I don't know if there are solutions, if you also need times before 1970
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