Failures for by_star only occur (seemingly) in a positive timezone where the local time is in a day in the future from UTC. So in +1000 (Brisbane) these three specs only fail BEFORE 10am. After 10am it's a sea of wonderful green. ..................................F..F..F................................... 1) 'Post today should show the post for tomorrow' FAILED expected ["Today's post", "Today"] to include "Tomorrow's post" ./spec/by_star_spec.rb:197: 2) 'Post yesterday should be able find yesterday, given a Date' FAILED expected ["Today's post", "Today"] to include "Yesterday's post" ./spec/by_star_spec.rb:213: 3) 'Post tomorrow should be able find tomorrow, given a Date' FAILED expected [] to include "Tomorrow's post" ./spec/by_star_spec.rb:230: Finished in 0.263454 seconds 76 examples, 3 failures