class DateTime

This is a hack to work around an oddness with DateTime and the ActiveSupport that causes a hang when some methods are called from C. Hour, min(ute), sec(ond) and other methods are special but they can be called from C until activesupport/time is required. After that they can not be even though resond_to? returns true. By defining methods to call super the problem goes away. There is obviously some magic going on under the covers that I don't understand.