On Wed, March 30, 2011 16:02, Colin Law wrote: > On 30 March 2011 20:46, James B. Byrne <byrn...@harte-lyne.ca> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, March 30, 2011 15:25, Colin Law wrote: >> >>> >>> Why do you need infinity as the default value? Why not make it >>> zero for example, or even better use null to indicate no date, >>> which would be more conventional. >>> >>> Colin >> >> That is quite beside the point. > > No it isn't, if you look back at my post you will see that > I was replying to your statement: >> I cannot code around this because the datetime class in Rails >> does not recognize 'infinity' as a valid value. > I was pointing out how you could code around it. > > I agree that it does not answer the query regarding why you are > seeing the problem in the first place.
Your entire reply to my original post was reproduced in my reply and again herein. In it you only refer to changing the default values insofar as I can determine from reading it. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
