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  1. Mongoid
  2. MONGOID-4853

Querying Date fields using a TimeWithZone instance queries by the date in local time zone

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    • Type: Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • 7.1.4, 7.0.10
    • Affects Version/s: 7.0.6, 7.1.0
    • Component/s: Query

      Given the following model:

      class Person
  include Mongoid::Document

  field :dob, type: Date
end

      A user can query the dob field of this model using a Time value.

      Time.now
# => 2020-04-22 15:27:39 -0400

Person.lte(dob: Time.now)
# => selector: {"dob"=>{"$lte"=>2020-04-22 00:00:00 UTC}}

      During that query, the original Time is converted to a different Time instance equivalent to midnight UTC on the same day as the original Time.

      However, when the same field is queried using a TimeWithZone value, the query is constructed using a TimeWithZone value equivalent to midnight on that same day in the current time zone.

      Time.use_zone('Europe/Moscow') { Person.lte(dob: Time.zone.now) }
# {"dob"=>{"$lte"=>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 MSK +03:00}}

      The behavior between these two classes is inconsistent. I believe that when TimeWithZone values are used to query Date fields, a TimeWithZone equivalent to midnight on that day in UTC should be used as the query value.

      The original ticket description is below:

      The following spec used to pass up to and including Mongoid 7.0.5 and started failing with Mongoid 7.0.6:

      require "spec_helper"

describe "Date valued fields" do
  context "when the TimeZone is ahead of UTC" do
    around do |example|
      Time.use_zone('Europe/Moscow') do
        example.run
      end
    end

    let!(:match) do
      Person.create(dob: Time.zone.today)
    end

    let!(:non_match) do
      Person.create(dob: Time.zone.tomorrow)
    end

    it "returns the matching documents" do
      expect(Person.lte(dob: Time.zone.now)).to match_array([match])
    end
  end

  context "when the TimeZone is trailing UTC" do
    around do |example|
      Time.use_zone('America/New_York') do
        example.run
      end
    end

    let!(:match) do
      Person.create(dob: Time.zone.today)
    end

    let!(:non_match) do
      Person.create(dob: Time.zone.yesterday)
    end

    it "returns the matching documents" do
      expect(Person.gte(dob: Time.zone.now.beginning_of_day)).to match_array([match])
    end
  end
end

      The reason is the introduction of mongo/active_support:

      In the first case we try to match 2020-03-12 with Mongoid's selector

      { "dob" => {"$lte"=>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 MSK +03:00} }

      which is equivalent to

      { "dob" => {"$lte"=>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:00:00 UTC} }

      The match will succeed if we expand 2020-03-12 into Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 MSK +03:00 and fail if we interpret it as Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 UTC.

            Assignee:
            oleg.pudeyev@mongodb.com Oleg Pudeyev (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            larnold@givve.com Leo Arnold
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