Colin Law wrote in post #1065800: >> What is the class of found? I updated the above mentioned gist. 'expected' is a DateTme, 'found' is ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone.
> Also I don't think you have told us which versions of ruby and rails > you are using. Apologies, this was buried at the end of the OP: >PS: I'm using postgresql with Ruby 1.93 and Rails 3.2.1 But this is all now moot: I posted this as a Rails issue: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/6814 where @pixeltrix patiently educated me on the anomalies of ancient calendar systems. The best line was "[calendar reforms] can lead to oddities like William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes dying on the same date but 10 days apart." He also suggests using #gregorian to adjust the datetime before converting to time, e.g: >> DateTime.jd(2000000).gregorian => Wed, 18 Sep 0763 00:00:00 +0000 So: not a bug. Just a reality of calendar reforms. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
