Weird created_at behavior

Question

I've set config.time_zone = 'UTC' in environment.rb, and yet still I get some weird behavior with Rails' built-in datetime fields:

>> Time.now
=> Sun Jun 21 17:05:59 -0700 2009
>> Feedback.create(:body => "testing")
=> #<Feedback id: 23, body: "testing", email_address: nil, name: nil, created_at: "2009-06-22 00:06:09", updated_at: "2009-06-22 00:06:09">
>> Time.parse(Feedback.last.created_at.to_s)
=> Mon Jun 22 00:06:09 UTC 2009

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

It looks like it's properly setting the timezone in the ActiveRecord object, so I don't think you need to worry too much. If you want to force your timestamp from Rails to use UTC, you can use Time.utc.

Time.now.utc
=> Mon Jun 22 00:54:21 UTC 2009