Rails - May 2006 - MySQL Datetime Format confusion

I have a column in a mysql table called "start_date" as a datetime. 
I''m
returning the results from that table as XML.

render :xml => @mystuff.to_xml

However, instead of coming across like:

2006-05-28 00:00:00

It comes across in the XML instead as:

2006-05-28T02:00:00-04:00

Is there a way to make it match the mysql format, or another way to have it 
generate XML so the string matches the way mysql shows it?  Otherwise, I can 
parse the way Rails is sending it back, just curious why the format is 
different.

???

--JesterXL

Hi !

2006/5/28, JesterXL <jesterxl@jessewarden.com>:
> 2006-05-28 00:00:00
>
> It comes across in the XML instead as:
>
> 2006-05-28T02:00:00-04:00
This is the XML Schema date/time format:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime

Hope that helps !
-- 
Fran?ois Beausoleil
http://blog.teksol.info/