Don't raise on out-of-range datetimes passed by a user

activerecord/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+*   Don't raise when writing an attribute with an out-of-range datetime passed
+    by the user.
+
+    *Grey Baker*
+
 *   Fixes bug with 'ActiveRecord::Type::Numeric' that causes negative values to
     be marked as having changed when set to the same negative value.
 

activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/time_zone_conversion.rb

@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ def type_cast_from_user(value)
           if value.is_a?(Array)
             value.map { |v| type_cast_from_user(v) }
           elsif value.respond_to?(:in_time_zone)
-            value.in_time_zone || super
+            begin
+              value.in_time_zone || super
+            rescue ArgumentError
+              nil
+            end
           end
         end
 

activerecord/test/cases/date_time_test.rb

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 require 'models/task'
 
 class DateTimeTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
+  include InTimeZone
+
   def test_saves_both_date_and_time
     with_env_tz 'America/New_York' do
       with_timezone_config default: :utc do
@@ -29,6 +31,14 @@ def test_assign_empty_date_time
     assert_nil task.ending
   end
 
+  def test_assign_bad_date_time_with_timezone
+    in_time_zone "Pacific Time (US & Canada)" do
+      task = Task.new
+      task.starting = '2014-07-01T24:59:59GMT'
+      assert_nil task.starting
+    end
+  end
+
   def test_assign_empty_date
     topic = Topic.new
     topic.last_read = ''