01/01/1970 Date Issue

[vs4vijay]

Hi,

I am trying to create a document with 1st January 1970 date, It is throwing following error:

NoMethodError: undefined method __bson_dump__' for Thu, 01 Jan 1970:Date
from /home/viz/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p385/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/moped-1.5.2/lib/moped/bson/extensions/hash.rb:15:in block in __bson_dump__'

And the statement I am using is this:

Profiles::Lead.last.update_attributes(prescription_date: "01/01/1970")

I am using Ruby version 1.9.3 with Mongoid version 3.1.6. I can not upgrade my ruby version but tried upgrading mongoid version to 4.0.0 and 5.0.0, couldn't upgrade because of some dependencies.

I think the problem is with Epoch time, Is there any solution to this?