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Date.yesterday on Rails3 return two days back date till 5:30 a.m., after that it returns last day

#6511

Date.yesterday on Rails3 return two days back date till 5:30 a.m. after that it returns last day. Whereas on Rails 2.3.5 the same scenario is working fine.

Rails 3 application returning two days back date till 5:30 a.m

C:\projects\rails3demo>rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.3)

irb(main):002:0> DateTime.now
=> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:20:23 +0530

irb(main):003:0> Date.yesterday => Tue, 01 Mar 2011

irb(main):008:0> DateTime.now
=> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:39:35 +0530

irb(main):009:0> Date.yesterday
=> Wed, 02 Mar 2011

Rails 2.3.5 application returning last date

C:\projects\rails2demo>ruby script/console
Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.5)

DateTime.now => Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:21:29 +0530

Date.yesterday => Wed, 02 Mar 2011

DateTime.now => Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:39:17 +0530

Date.yesterday => Wed, 02 Mar 2011

Reported by Ritesh Kumar · March 3rd, 2011 @ 09:20 AM

State: duplicate
Milestone: none
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: Low

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  1. Andrew White
    Andrew White
    • State changed from new to duplicate
    • Importance changed from to Low

    This is a duplicate of #6410 Date.yesterday == Date.today - Time.now & Date.today use the local system time and Date.yesterday uses Time.zone which defaults to UTC in Rails. Use Date.current and Time.current to get the current time and date in your application.

    March 3rd, 2011 @ 11:05 AM