Yeah that sounds pretty nasty. To get around all this, I simply changed my timeline endpoints to start at 30 days ago and end at strictly less than today.midnight. That way I don't include today's numbers which could possibly be wrong because of timezone differences. Thanks Matt.
On Sep 4, 12:56 pm, Matt Jones <al2o...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think this is going to work - you're grouping by the date in > the DB, where they are all UTC. The dates that come back don't have > times, so there isn't any way to convert them. (eg, 2009-09-03 > 02:39:22 UTC -> 2009-09-02 CDT, but 2009-09-03 2009-09-03 12:39:22 UTC > -> 2009-09-03 CDT) > > The only way around it would be to add the offset back in on the SQL > side before converting to a date; how you manage that will be based on > which DB you're using. Note that you'll still have a mess on your > hands, as the two months where DST changes won't have a consistent > offset... > > --Matt Jones > > On Sep 3, 9:39 pm, JL Smith <autige...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yeah, I tried that in my example that I posted but the results aren't > > then converted back to the users timezone. So if a Product is sitting > > in the database with created_at = 2009-09-03 02:39:22 UTC (which is > > 2009-09-02 21:39:22 CDT), it won't come back converted to CDT. > > > On Sep 3, 11:54 am, Matt Jones <al2o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > This looks like an instance of this bug: > > > >https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2946 > > > > The quick way to fix it in this case is to convert the incoming > > > datetime objects to UTC in timeline_created_products. > > > > --Matt Jones > > > > On Sep 2, 10:23 pm, JL Smith <autige...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm having some trouble getting activerecord to adhere to my timezone > > > > settings when finding objects based on its created_at field. I > > > > understand that datetime fields are stored in UTC but it doesn't > > > > convert the datetimes when it performs the lookup. I basically > > > > followed Railscasts #106 and I'm using Authlogic for authentication. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > >http://gist.github.com/180080 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
