From the docs on time "On some operating systems, this offset is allowed to be negative." perhaps travis is one of those systems that does not allow negative offsets. Using the integer value for 1900 and 1904 epocs

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diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 5695a0c4..12ec6a52 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ end
 
 task :test do 
      require 'rake/testtask'
-     puts "The current time is: #{Time.now}"
- 
-     puts "1900 was: #{Time.local(1900,1,1)}"
-     puts "1904 was: #{Time.local(1904,1,1)}"
-
      Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
        t.libs << 'test'
        t.test_files = FileList['test/**/tc_*.rb']