On Apr 16, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Please respond with an exact syntax. I am presently using > Time.at(ts) and I end up with a null in my database. $ ruby -ryaml -e 'puts Time.now.to_yaml' --- 2008-04-17 08:55:11.842682 -06:00 You have to use the YAML.load function to read the timestamp back in as a Ruby object. Blessings, TwP