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ActiveRecord 3+ auto-converts times to UTC by default. Hilarity ensues.

Henning Koch
September 05, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Remember how Rails 2 came with an awesome feature that broke all code using Time.now or Time.parse?

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This behavior is now the default for Rails 3. Disable it by adding the following to your config/application.rb:

config.active_record.default_timezone = :local
config.active_record.time_zone_aware_attributes = false    
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-09-05 16:17)