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authorJon Moss <maclover7@users.noreply.github.com>2017-04-17 20:56:13 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-04-17 20:56:13 -0500
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Merge pull request #28782 from kmayer/kmayer-doc-to-time
Add more explanation to to_time about timezones
-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
index d553406dff..c6c30aa835 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ class Date
# date.to_time(:local) # => 2007-11-10 00:00:00 0800
#
# date.to_time(:utc) # => 2007-11-10 00:00:00 UTC
+ #
+ # NOTE: The :local timezone is Ruby's *process* timezone, i.e. ENV['TZ']
+ # If the *application's* timezone is needed, then use +in_time_zone+ instead
def to_time(form = :local)
raise ArgumentError, "Expected :local or :utc, got #{form.inspect}." unless [:local, :utc].include?(form)
::Time.send(form, year, month, day)