You can use ActiveSupport’s TimeWithZone (Time.zone
) object to create and parse dates in the time zone of your application:
1.9.3p0 :001 > Time.zone.now
=> Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:47:03 PDT -07:00
1.9.3p0 :002 > Time.zone.parse('2012-07-11 21:00')
=> Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:00:00 PDT -07:00