CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-rails
mdmb
mdmb

Reputation: 5283

Rails5 - best type for storing hours and minutes

What type should I assign to a variable to store opening and closing time of a place? Should it be datetime, time or just a simple string? Which one is easier to manage?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 405

Answers (2)

Stian S
Stian S

Reputation: 557

Ruby doesn't have a datatype for representing Time of day. The Time datatype in Ruby is the number of seconds since Epoch (1970.01.01T00:00:00 UTC)

But you could represent opening_hours as the number of seconds since midnight.

Or you could simply define opening_hours as TimeWithZone (datetime in the migration), and then ignore the date part.

Upvotes: 1

Nadiya
Nadiya

Reputation: 1527

The best one is to use :time because you want to store time, not date

Upvotes: 0

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