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Time.now doesn't respect config.time_zone
Reported by Jordan Brough | March 2nd, 2009 @ 09:55 PM | in 2.x
I am located in MST timezone but want my Rails app to run in UTC. I've set config.time_zone = 'UTC' which seems to work except that Time.now remains in MST, which produces unexpected results. Should Time.now be using the modified timezone?
# config/environment.rb
config.time_zone = 'UTC'
# console
$ script/runner "puts (Time.now + 1.day).hour, 1.day.from_now.hour"
14
21
$ script/runner "puts (Time.now + 1.day).zone, 1.day.from_now.zone"
MST
UTC
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Geoff Buesing March 2nd, 2009 @ 10:02 PM
- State changed from “new” to “wontfix”
This is correct behavior: Time.now is not affected by config.time_zone/Time.zone.
To get the current time in Time.zone, use Time.zone.now.
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Jordan Brough March 2nd, 2009 @ 10:12 PM
Thanks for the quick response. Is the reasoning for this documented anywhere? (I couldn't find it) Seems a bit unintuitive and verbose (not to mention error-prone when I forget the '.zone.').
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Jordan Brough March 2nd, 2009 @ 10:13 PM
The unintuitive bit being that 1.day.from_now uses config.time_zone while Time.now + 1.day doesn't.
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