Articles tagged with Time
The timezone bug that hid in plain sight for months
We recently fixed a bug in a financial platform's data sync that had been silently causing inconsistencies for months. The bug was elegant in its simplicity: checking DST status for "now" when converting historical dates.
Stop using DateTime in 2026 (unless you work for UNESCO)
DateTime has been considered deprecated in Ruby since 3.0. It's 2026. Why are people still using it?
First class json(b) handling in Rails Event Store
Recently, in Rails Event Store v2.8.0 PreserveTypes transformation has been introduced. v2.9.0 release brought RailsEventStore::JSONClient. It's a set of great improvements for RES users who plan to or already use PostgreSQL with jsonb data type for keeping events' data and metadata.