[Rails] Re: Re: Time without date

2012-10-26 Thread Denis P.
Philip Hallstrom wrote in post #937228: > Just for the sake of argument... how about the time it takes runners to > finish a marathon? Sure you could use seconds as an integer field, but > time without date make sense... I'm currently developing application, where I need to store beginning date

Re: [Rails] Re: Re: Time without date

2010-08-31 Thread Michael Pavling
On 31 August 2010 20:15, Robert Walker wrote: > Greg Donald wrote: > As I said meaningless without applying the date part to it. If today is > Saturday, and the event is scheduled at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, what happens > if the time changes to, or from, daylight savings time at 2:00 a.m. > Sunday. The

[Rails] Re: Re: Time without date

2010-08-31 Thread Robert Walker
Robert Walker wrote: > As I said meaningless without applying the date part to it. If today is > Saturday, and the event is scheduled at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, what happens > if the time changes to, or from, daylight savings time at 2:00 a.m. > Sunday. The value "4:00 p.m." must be translated based

[Rails] Re: Re: Time without date

2010-08-31 Thread Robert Walker
Greg Donald wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Robert Walker > wrote: >> I personally don't know why MySQL even bothers providing a TIME field >> type. >> >> Of course, as always, I could be missing some specific use case for it. > > Repeating events, "Tuesdays at 4:00pm" for example. >