Hi,
I have a strange case,
my system clock is set to utc and eastern time (-5)
rails is configured to use eastern time
timestamps on the database work as expected,
meaning they are stored in utc
but by hand time entries are 2 hours behind, (why on earth two?)
i.e
Time.parse(“2008-02-24 4 pm”) will return Tue Feb 24 16:00:00 -0500 2009
but will store it in the database as 19:00 instead of 21:00 hrs (utc
speaking)
Any clues?
What happens if you do this:
puts( Time.parse(“2008-02-24 4 pm”).utc )
Do you get the correct UTC time?
Maurício Linhares
http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/
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On Feb 24, 10:49 am, Maurício Linhares [email protected]
wrote:
What happens if you do this:
puts( Time.parse(“2008-02-24 4 pm”).utc )
Do you get the correct UTC time?
Brigado Mauricio for the replay, yep,
this was on scraped data, ashamed to say that I wasn’t checking its
integrity,
when i got the data like this: yyyy-mm-ddhh_mm (without space between
dd and hh),
interestingly enough, after 2,200 parses the parser starts the 2 hour
drift,
(I am making sure that the date string comes properly formatted now)
but still, an interesting ‘feature’