Problem saving time in rails.

Question

I have an application which save datetime using Time.now, but when I retrieves it and compare with Time.now again it not the same format and result in unexpected result.

What should I do to always make this time standard all the time.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Rails treats time in a special way because time zone support in Ruby was deemed insufficient, i.e. Ruby Time instances only work with UTC and ENV['TZ'] A Time object persisted in ActiveRecord will therefore look quite different to the return value of Time.now. To get on the same page as Rails use Time.zone.now

Answer 2

Favorite thing ever when it comes to time parsing and standardizing values is the Chronic gem. Natural format time parser. Very handy. Saves me from a lot of work trying to write/read time formats correctly for databasing time formats. Maybe not really the solution to the problem, but its worth a look.