Question

I’m having trouble working with Time.now. For some reason when I save an object to the DB it saves it for the year 2000. I’m trying to make a comparison to the object I saved in the DB to Time.now to check if it is greater, but it always returns false because of the year 2000. Does anyone know of a way I can work around this?

I just need to check to make sure 10 minutes has passed since I created a time object compared to Time.now

Answer 1

It sounds like your database column is of type time rather than datetime or timestamp. This will only store the time and when it is converted to a Time instance in ruby (which does support day, month, year, etc) the default values are used for day, month, year which is why you’re seeing the year 2000.

You probably need to update your database column to be datetime or timestamp if that is the problem as it sounds like you’ll want the day, month, year parts of the time anyway. In which case you’re comparisons will work.