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Notes:


C libraries are the most common places you'll see overriding of date and datetime code, but even some pure ruby libraries do so.

This example is taken from ruby-ole, which is a ruby library that allows you to deal with those ugly Microsoft formats like pre-Office 2007 Word documents.

Ruby-ole has a FileTime class, which is a subclass of DateTime.

There are a couple things to note here.