Rails - Jul 2006 - serialized DateTime objects returning as Time objects

I have a database field called dates in which I am trying to serialize an
array of DateTime objects.   When I unserialize them, they are coming back
in as Time objects.  I know this, because I am getting errors that say
"comparison between Time and DateTime failed.

Why is this happening?  Is there a way to prevent it??

Thanks Shelby
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* Shelby Westman (shelby.westman@gmail.com) [060709
17:27]:
> I have a database field called dates in which I am trying to serialize an
array
> of DateTime objects.   When I unserialize them, they are coming back in as
Time
> objects.  I know this, because I am getting errors that say
"comparison between
> Time and DateTime failed.
> 
> Why is this happening?  Is there a way to prevent it??
I seem to recall there being a problem with one or some of the Ruby
postgres drivers doing this, while others do not (one might ask why
there are so many Ruby postgres drivers, but that is the bounty which is
open source software).  Also seems that a few months ago there was a
patch in the works for this problem, but I don''t know the status of
this.  We ran into it on OS X some time ago and switching postgres
drivers seemed to work while the problem was being sorted out elsewhere.
If you''re on Postgres you might dig a bit to see if this is the problem
and if it''s been fixed upstream.

Rick
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Sadly, I am using MySQL on OS X, not postgres.

Shelby

On 7/9/06, Rick Bradley <rick@rickbradley.com>
wrote:
>
> * Shelby Westman (shelby.westman@gmail.com) [060709 17:27]:
> > I have a database field called dates in which I am trying to serialize
> an array
> > of DateTime objects.   When I unserialize them, they are coming back
in
> as Time
> > objects.  I know this, because I am getting errors that say
"comparison
> between
> > Time and DateTime failed.
> >
> > Why is this happening?  Is there a way to prevent it??
>
> I seem to recall there being a problem with one or some of the Ruby
> postgres drivers doing this, ....
>
> Rick
>
>
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