Yaml WTF

02 November 2008 ruby and yaml x comments

What do you suppose this evaluates to in Ruby YAML:

  YAML.load("18:00")

The string "18:00"? The hash {18 => 0} ? Wrong. The answer is: 1080.

Why? Sexagesimal of course! As used by the ancient Sumerians.

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