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Rails: Is Date.today in UTC?

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date

timezone

ruby

Calling Date.today in Ruby returns the current date. However, what timezone is it in? I assume UTC, but I want to make sure. The documentation doesn't state either way.

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Matt Huggins Avatar asked Apr 18 '12 23:04

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You can get away by using

Time.now.utc.to_date

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vipulnsward Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 21:10

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