Default Year selection for date_select?

Hi,

is it posible to tell rails to select a specific year/month/day when
using a
date_select helper?

as mentioned in at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6124 things like
:select_year => 1960
wont work.

Where would be a good location to look for such things when the api
doesnt show it?

Pascal