Geoff Buesing

Also just noticed the Duration * and / methods in @Dan Barry's patch -- I think that that could be extracted into its own patch -- would be nice if

5.days * ...

Also: @Dan Barry, just curious, where does the mysterious 512 multiplier in your patch derive from? :-)

Seems like this could be useful stuff. But I think the idea needs to start off in a plugin first, so that we'll better understand the common use cases that we c...

I can see how this would result unexpected behavior when you're sorting or comparing based on a timestamp -- you'd assume, for example, that any record that was...

@C. Bedard -- if the Rails.cache memory store marshaled objects before storing, and unmarshaled them on retrieval, then it would never return instances of strip...

It's worked this way for all 2.x releases; we'd really need a good reason to change this behavior now.

Do you have a specific use case where you run into an iss...

@Nicholas -- thanks, good catch! I pulled this into 2-2-stable as well.

@C. Bedard -- in regards to your patch: by working around issues with #id and #skip_time_zone_, you may just be pushing the problem further downstream, instead ...

@C. Bedard -- thanks for the example, very helpful to have this. I think you're right about the explicit require mucking up the works with Dependencies and clas...

@Emili -- config.active_record.default_timezone represents the zone that times are persisted in -- you can only set this to :utc or :local; 'Madrid' is not a va...