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AS guide: updates docs on date calculations to reflect a0a6cc2
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# => ArgumentError: invalid date
</ruby>

h5. Named Times
h5. Timestamps

WARNING: The following methods do not take into account the user time zone. They return timestamps in localtime.

INFO: The following methods return a +Time+ object if possible, otherwise a +DateTime+.
INFO: The following methods return a +Time+ object if possible, otherwise a +DateTime+. If set, they honor the user time zone.

h6. +beginning_of_day+, +end_of_day+

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date.end_of_day # => Sun Jun 06 23:59:59 +0200 2010
</ruby>

+beginning_of_day+ is aliased to +at_beginning_of_day+, +midnight+, +at_midnight+
+beginning_of_day+ is aliased to +at_beginning_of_day+, +midnight+, +at_midnight+.

h6. +ago+, +since+

The method +ago+ receives a number of seconds as argument and returns a timestamp those many seconds ago from midnight:

<ruby>
date = Date.current # => Fri, 11 Jun 2010
date.ago(1) # => Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:59:59 EDT -04:00
</ruby>

Similarly, +since+ moves forward:

<ruby>
date = Date.current # => Fri, 11 Jun 2010
date.since(1) # => Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:01 EDT -04:00
</ruby>

h5. Other Time Computations

h4(#date-conversions). Conversions

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