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Rails time zones + Date.today + system time zone interaction
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| [1] pry(main)> [`date`, ENV['TZ'], Time.zone, Date.today.midnight, Date.yesterday.midnight] | |
| => ["Wed Oct 3 23:11:03 CDT 2012\n", | |
| nil, | |
| (GMT+00:00) UTC, | |
| Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 UTC +00:00, | |
| Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 UTC +00:00] | |
| [2] pry(main)> ENV['TZ'] = 'UTC' | |
| => "UTC" | |
| [3] pry(main)> [`date`, ENV['TZ'], Time.zone, Date.today.midnight, Date.yesterday.midnight] | |
| => ["Thu Oct 4 04:11:21 UTC 2012\n", | |
| "UTC", | |
| (GMT+00:00) UTC, | |
| Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 UTC +00:00, | |
| Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 UTC +00:00] | |
| [4] pry(main)> ENV['TZ'] = Time.zone = 'US/Central' | |
| => "US/Central" | |
| [5] pry(main)> [`date`, ENV['TZ'], Time.zone, Date.today.midnight, Date.yesterday.midnight] | |
| => ["Wed Oct 3 23:11:41 CDT 2012\n", | |
| "US/Central", | |
| (GMT-06:00) US/Central, | |
| Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 CDT -05:00, | |
| Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 CDT -05:00] |
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