Problem setting date of album release

[chrislo]

A couple of artists have reported seeing the following error when editing an album

It looks like the release date has to be set earlier than 21st January 2024. I'm not sure what's causing the issue - the time on the server looks to be set correctly.

[chrislo]

• I notice I am able to set a later released_on date through the rails console and the model successfully saves with no validation errors
• I can't seem to reproduce this bug locally
• The date in the error message 2024-01-21 matches the last deployment date of the web server in render:

This makes me wonder whether the validation line in app/models/album.rb is somehow caching or closing over the value of Time.zone.today the first time it is called or the server is booted.

Does that sound remotely plausible @floehopper?

[chrislo]

I restarted the server and was able to set the released_on date to today (and other dates later than 2024-01-21). So I think it's plausible that the released_on validation code in album.rb is executed when the application starts and evaluates Time.zone.today at that time. I'll see if there's a way to make it dynamically evaluate the validation code each time it is used.