Change Timestamps
Learn how to change default options for timestamps.
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Change defaults for timestamps
Earlier, we saw how the timestamps
method automatically adds inserted_at
and updated_at
columns to our tables. By default, these will always use Elixir’s NaiveDateTime
type, but we’ll can change this globally in our Repo
config. Here’s how we could change it to use a UTC timestamp.
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