I need a date/time object due to domain requirements although at this
point I don't care about the time object, I just want it to be
midnight. There are other ways for the user to enter data into this
table where the time element becomes relevant.
Where do I have the rails source? Also do you know what file/class
handles receiving a post request from a form?
If anyone else is interested here's the code I'm using to reset the
time to midnight.
@gas_reading = @user.gas_readings.build(params[:gas_reading])
@gas_reading.start_date = @gas_reading.start_date.change(:hour =>
0, :min => 0, :second => 0) unless @gas_reading.start_date.nil?
@gas_reading.end_date = @gas_reading.end_date.change(:hour =>
0, :min => 0, :second => 0) unless @gas_reading.end_date.nil?
On Oct 14, 1:34 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote:
> voidstar wrote in post #950126:
>
> > Hey,
> > Thanks for the reply, I could easily write some code to discard the
> > time field, which is what I'll probably do now
>
> You don't have to discard anything. Just ignore it.
>
> Check Rails' field types; I think if you define the field in the
> migration as date instead of datetime, you will get a Date object from
> the DB, not the DateTime you currently have.
>
> > but I'd just like to
> > know how rails is doing this, I guess is should go about downloading
> > the rails source and grok it myself.
>
> You've already got the Rails source.
>
>
>
> > I'm in GMT but using daylight savings.
>
> > I guess if I just reset the time members of the DateTime object its
> > returning to me I'm relatively insulated from errors if this
> > translation changes in a future release.
>
> There's no need to reset. There's no translation, really; Rails is
> creating a DateTime object, so it needs a time value. Again, you're
> overthinking it and persuading yourself into more complex code than is
> actually necessary.
>
>
>
> > Thanks
> > Barry
>
> Best,
> --
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> [email protected]
>
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