What version of rails?  Can you post a few lines of the code?  The way that 
you're setting your timestamp field may be causing the problem...


On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:04:17 PM UTC-7, Gisborne wrote:
>
> I’m sure it’s just me, but this looks just wrong. 
>
> My timestamp field is time without zone. 
>
> I’ve got a suitable default time zone set in Rails. 
>
> I create a record. 
>
> I display the timestamp. 
>
> The time displayed is off by 7 hours. 
>
> The behavior that would make sense to me is that the value written to the 
> database would always be UTC, which would get converted to the local time 
> zone on display. 
>
> But Rails appears to be doing the latter while not doing the former. So 
> the time in the database is local time. But when I display it, it’s having 
> 7 hours subtracted. 
>
> This seems too obviously stupid. I must be missing something.

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