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Matthew Bass

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Nickname: pelargir
Registered: Dec, 2005

Jared Richardson and Matthew Bass are independent software consultants

Dirty date/time attrs in Rails lose their time zone

Posted: Feb 21, 2010 8:27 PM

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Dirty attributes were recently added to Rails and they’re quite useful. However, I ran into a problem where a dirty date/time attribute was losing its time zone information after a save. I was doing a comparison between two dates in a before_update callback like so: before_update do if started_at.to_s(:abbrev_date) != started_at_was.to_s(:abbrev_date) errors.add [...]

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