changing active record to use date or datetime instead of time

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Hello,

I need to use Date or DateTime for a column instead of Time because I have need to include dates older than 1970. I am using SQL Server for a backend. I have been experimenting with changing the column type in SQL Server, but active record always seems to Time regardless of what the column type is.

Is there something I need to declare in my model? I can't seem to get active record to use anything but Time.

Thanks, Dan

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you may want to use float (int) and store the number of seconds since an epoch of your liking and do some swizzling to make it available in the model's attributes the way you prefer to clients of the model.