Great thanks! That's working nicely. Will
On Jul 30, 12:42 pm, Philip Hallstrom <phi...@pjkh.com> wrote: > On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Will wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to use the ActiveSupport Time extension but running into a > > bit of trouble with the time zone. > > > I'd like to test if a user record has expired using the Time .ago > > method, such as: > > > def expired > > return true if self.activated < 1.day.ago > > end > > > Unfortunately I can't seem to use the .ago method in the comparison > > because it's using UTC time, whereas Time.now has my current time zone > > (-0700). > > > will$ script/console > > Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.2) > > >>> Time.now > > => Thu Jul 30 12:16:30 -0700 2009 > > >>> 1.hour.ago > > => Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:16:34 UTC +00:00 > > > I can get around this by using something like "Time.now + 1.day" but > > I'm interested to know what I'm doing wrong with the .ago method. > > > Maybe there's some sort of time zone setting that I've missed? > > Maybe. I've never looked, but you can always tack localtime() onto it. > > >> Time.now > => Thu Jul 30 12:40:31 -0700 2009 > >> 1.day.ago > => Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:40:31 UTC 00:00 > >> 1.day.ago.localtime > => Wed Jul 29 12:40:38 -0700 2009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
