# Unusual Time Behavior in 2.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unusual-time-behavior-in-2-1/148575>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 15, 2008, 9:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unusual-time-behavior-in-2-1/148575 "2008-09-15T09:11:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 9:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unusual-time-behavior-in-2-1/148575/1 "2008-09-15T09:11:59Z")

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I’m running into an odd situation where datetime\_select is making the  
hours into minutes and putting nothing in for hours. It sounds really  
odd, but it is whats happening. I generated a simple scaffold with the  
results below.

My database table is mysql which looks like:

```
create_table :my_sessions do |t|
  t.integer :user_id
  t.string :ssession_id
  t.date :start_date
  t.time :start_time
  t.time :end_time
  t.string :location
  t.string :title
  t.string :source
  t.boolean :msg_sent

  t.timestamps
end

```

The View is standard scaffold:

# Editing my\_session
\<% form\_for (@my\_session) do |f| %\> 

\<%= f.label :ssession\_id %\>  
 \<%= f.text\_field :ssession\_id %\>

\<%= f.label :start\_date %\>  
 \<%= f.date\_select :start\_date %\>

\<%= f.label :start\_time %\>  
 \<%= f.datetime\_select :start\_time %\>

\<%= f.label :end\_time %\>  
 \<%= f.datetime\_select :end\_time %\>

\<%= f.label :location %\>  
 \<%= f.text\_field :location %\>

\<%= f.label :title %\>  
 \<%= f.text\_field :title %\>

\<%= f.submit "Update" %\>

\<% end %\> \<%= link\_to 'Show', @my\_session %\> | \<%= link\_to 'Back', my\_sessions\_path %\>

My controller is:  
def update  
user = User.find(session[:user\_id])  
@my\_session = MySession.find(params[:id], :conditions =\>  
[“my\_sessions.user\_id = ?”, user.id])

```
respond_to do |format|
  if @my_session.update_attributes(params[:my_session])
    flash[:notice] = 'MySession was successfully updated.'
    format.html { redirect_to(@my_session) }
    format.xml { head :ok }
  else
    format.html { render :action => "edit" }
    format.xml { render :xml => @my_session.errors, :status =>

```

:unprocessable\_entity }  
end  
end  
end

The model is empty.

Again, if I view my edit page and the time that is returned from the  
database is:  
January 1, 2007, 13:45  
I change it on the form to be:  
January 1, 2007, 12:45  
What gets stored is:  
January 1, 2007, 1:12

When creating a new record the day gets set as the hour, the hour the  
minute and the minute the seconds. Its really odd. Any help would be  
great.

Thanks Matt