From: "drbrain (Eric Hodel)" <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2012-08-18T03:24:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:47234] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6887][Rejected] Time.zone.now returning different timezone that Time.zone.at


Issue #6887 has been updated by drbrain (Eric Hodel).

Status changed from Open to Rejected

Brazil uses daylight savings time.  Jan 1 is in standard time, Aug 17th is in daylight savings time:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=45
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Bug #6887: Time.zone.now returning different timezone that Time.zone.at
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6887#change-28922

Author: anthfb (Anthony Figueroa)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 1.9.2
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0] 


1.9.2p290 :018 > Time.zone = 'Brasilia'
 => "Brasilia" 

1.9.2p290 :020 >  Time.zone.now
 => Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:08:06 BRT -03:00 

1.9.2p290 :021 > Event.last.start_time
 => 2000-01-01 03:45:00 UTC 

1.9.2p290 :022 > Time.zone.at(event.start_time)
 => Sat, 01 Jan 2000 01:45:00 BRST -02:00 

Why is this happening? Is it a bug?


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