Serialized DateTime objects returning as Time objects

Rails
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I have a database field called dates in which I am trying to serialize
an
array of DateTime objects. When I unserialize them, they are coming
back
in as Time objects. I know this, because I am getting errors that say
"comparison between Time and DateTime failed.

Why is this happening? Is there a way to prevent it??

Thanks Shelby

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I have a database field called dates in which I am trying to serialize an array
of DateTime objects. When I unserialize them, they are coming back in as Time
objects. I know this, because I am getting errors that say "comparison between
Time and DateTime failed.

Why is this happening? Is there a way to prevent it??

I seem to recall there being a problem with one or some of the Ruby
postgres drivers doing this, while others do not (one might ask why
there are so many Ruby postgres drivers, but that is the bounty which is
open source software). Also seems that a few months ago there was a
patch in the works for this problem, but I don’t know the status of
this. We ran into it on OS X some time ago and switching postgres
drivers seemed to work while the problem was being sorted out elsewhere.
If you’re on Postgres you might dig a bit to see if this is the problem
and if it’s been fixed upstream.

Rick

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Sadly, I am using MySQL on OS X, not postgres.

Shelby