Re: [Ruby-DBI-devel] (fwd) Bug in Ruby::DBI?

[Paul D. <pa...@sn...>]

At 19:24 +0200 5/30/03, Michael Neumann wrote:
>On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:21:19AM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:
>>  At 12:13 +0200 5/30/03, Michael Neumann wrote:
>>  >Hi,
>>  >
>>  >What do you think?
>>  >For me it seems natural to use the local timezone instead of GMT.
>>
>>  Stefano's right that datetime values in MySQL have no timezone
>>  information.
>>
>>  But the time returned is in the *server's* local timezone.
>
>So, if we don't know the server's timezone, the best we could do is to
>assume GMT (this at least would be determinant). Of course this
>behaviour should be documented somewhere.
>
>Would you agree?

I agree, but I wasn't clear on why there was any problem with using
Time.gm in the first place.  How does that manifest itself as incorrect
behavior?

>
>
>Regards,
>
>   Michael