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Now home_run was mostly written for performance. It attempts to have an API as close to possible as the standard library.

However, there is one mistake the standard library makes that I think is bad enough it must be corrected.

That mistake is how it parses a date like this. In ruby 1.8, this date is parsed successfully as Christmas.

However, if you upgrade to ruby 1.9, you'll find that ruby has...