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Asked: 2026-06-16T21:51:03+00:00

Trying to get records that were created this year, I stumbled upon this great

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Trying to get records that were created this year, I stumbled upon this great question. The second answer says you get all records from a model that were created today by saying:

Model.where("created_at >= ?", Time.now.beginning_of_day)

So, naturally, I tried the same thing with Time.now.beginning_of_year, and it works just fine.

However, what struck me as interesting is that the outputted query (I tried it in the console) is

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `invoices` WHERE (created_at >= '2012-12-31 23:00:00')

I wasn’t aware that 2013 already began at 2012-12-31 23:00:00? How’s that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you haven’t set it yet, you should set your timezone in the config/application.rb file. Look for the line that begins with config.time_zone. (If you aren’t sure what value to give, you can run rake time:zones:all to get a list of all available timezones.)

    Once you’ve set your timezone, you should use Time.zone.now, as opposed to Time.now. This will properly “scope” your times to your timezone.

    Check the API for more details on TimeWithZone.

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