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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:37:53+00:00

I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to work with Time in Rails. Basically

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I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to work with Time in Rails. Basically I need to set all time output (core as well as ActiveSupport) to the server’s local time — no GMT, no UTC, etc. I’ve seen various posts relating to Time, but they usually involve someone’s need to set it for each user. Mine isn’t nearly as complex, I simply want consistency when I use any Time object. (I’d also appreciate not receiving errors every 3 seconds telling me that I can’t convert a Fixnum (or some other type) to string — it’s Ruby, just do it!)

I also seem to be getting drastically different times for Time.new vs the ActiveSupport 1.second.ago. Anyway, does anyone have any quality suggestions as regards working with Time in Rails?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you just want Time objects to be consistent, then why not stick with UTC? I just tried Time.new and 1.second.ago using script/console and I get the same output (give or take a second for typing the command). How are you doing it?

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