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text_field tag has incorrect time
Reported by David Parker | November 15th, 2008 @ 06:58 PM | in 2.x
I'm working on an app where I have my time_zone set to something not UTC: config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'
When I go to edit a model in my app for that time zone, text_field returns the incorrect time. The datetime_select tag returns the correct time though.
So pretty much, this works and returns the time based on the offset:
= f.datetime_select :posted_at
and this one doesn't:
= f.text_field :posted_at
Thanks and keep up the good work!
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Geoff Buesing December 2nd, 2008 @ 01:05 AM
- State changed from “new” to “wontfix”
Hmm, I agree that's not what you'd expect to see, but it would be pretty hard to fix this, given that text_field is built with the _before_type_cast version of the attribute.
But even if we could fix this, I'm skeptical that the default presentation would be valuable -- the user would see a value like this:
2008-11-20 17:35:09 -0600... a db-like output, with an offset string -- I think you'd want friendlier formatting for the user.
You can currently achieve this via text_field_tag -- something like:
text_field_tag "post[publish_at]", @post.publish_at.to_s(:my_friendly_format) -
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