As far as I understand, it was introduced in Rails 2.1 (seems to be working
on my 2.1 version).

maybe add ::ActiveRecord::VERSION::MINOR >= 1 before the whole statement?

Ohad
On 9/18/09, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hmm.  I just tried this in irb, and I don't even have a 'zone=' method
> on Time, even after loading active_record.
>
> Do you know where this method comes from?
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:46 PM, Ohad Levy wrote:
>
> > as far as I can understand from the rails code, that would only be
> > valid to AR, as Time.zone will return ActiveSupport::TimeZone
> > object, but Time.now still returns local time.
> >
> > On 9/17/09, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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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> > > One of the Ten Commandments for Technicians:
> > >      (7) Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy
> > >      fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and
> > >      console her in other ways.
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and
> > charge
> > five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
> >      -- Emo Phillips
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > >
>
>
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>
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>      them.
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