But you've got 'Time.zone = "UTC"', which is global behaviour, right?

On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Ohad Levy wrote:

> The way I understand the problem is that all time object when saved  
> into a database lose their timezone properties.
> this patch, make AR aware of timezones, and ensures that it does the  
> right conversions when storing time objects for example:
> if you save last_compile in local time, AR will store it as utc, but  
> when you read it AR will return a time object with local time zone  
> offset.
>
> this is important when you share your database with other  
> applications, where they expect all datetime objects to be in UTC.
> This does not change any other behavior of writing time in other  
> places - e.g. your yaml files will still contain the timezone  
> information as they are a dump of Time objects.
>
> Ohad
>
> On 9/17/09, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
> How does this affect the rest of the system?  It sets the TZ to UTC
> for everything, right?
>
> I know we should be doing this anyway, but if so we need to do so as
> part of a more obvious effort, rather than just as a Rails fix.
>
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
>
> > From 1368df476535169785812c2f6400f84a4f5064bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00  
> 2001
> > From: Ohad Levy <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:08:23 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH/puppet 1/1] fixes #2518 - This defaults all datetime
> > fields in ActiveRecord to store in UTC vs the puppetmaster localtime
> > Signed-off-by: Ohad Levy <[email protected]>
> >
> > ---
> >  lib/puppet/rails.rb |    6 ++++++
> >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/puppet/rails.rb b/lib/puppet/rails.rb
> > index fc8eacd..c8e9947 100644
> > --- a/lib/puppet/rails.rb
> > +++ b/lib/puppet/rails.rb
> > @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ module Puppet::Rails
> >              ActiveRecord::Base.logger.level = Logger::DEBUG
> >          end
> >
> > +        # Ensure that Active Record uses UTC to store datetime
> > +        # fixes #2518
> > +        Time.zone = "UTC"
> > +        ActiveRecord::Base.time_zone_aware_attributes = true
> > +        ActiveRecord::Base.default_timezone = "UTC"
> > +
> >          ActiveRecord::Base.verify_active_connections!
> >
> >          begin
> > --
> > 1.6.0.4
> >
> >
> > >
>
>
>
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> >


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