Naive_datetime or utc_datetime

[Rijidaru]

I’m confused, which one is recommend to be used?

[Ankhers]

They both have uses. Which one you use is dependant upon what you are doing. Do you have a usecase in mind that you are trying to use one of these? If so, would you be able to tell us more about what you are trying to do?

[Rijidaru]

@Ankhers

They both have uses. Which one you use is dependant upon what you are doing.

In what cases is naive used, and in what utc?

[maz]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Naive_datetime+vs+utc_datetime

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Difference in between :utc_datetime and :naive_datetime in Ecto

When your schema looks like: schema "users" do ... timestamps() end How would you convert these to use :utc_timestamps?

[Rijidaru]

My question isn’t about a difference, but when is used which.

[Rijidaru]

@Rijidaru

In what cases is naive used, and in what utc?

In what cases is naive used, and in what utc?

[kokolegorille]

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Difference in between :utc_datetime and :naive_datetime in Ecto

You should use :utc_datetime unless you have a reason not to. The reason why Ecto’s timestamps() are naive by default is backwards compatibility. Since they are always UTC anyway, you should use :utc_datetime for them (and I believe the default will be changed to that in the future). The difference between :utc_datetime and :naive_datetime is that the former will ensure that you can only insert UTC DateTimes and will read back UTC DateTime structs from the DB, whereas the latter will remove tim…