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Created May 5, 2011 23:22
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activesupport to_time
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to_time
Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.7)
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 > s = Time.now.to_s
=> "2011-05-05 17:11:19 -0600"
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 > s.to_time
=> 2011-05-05 17:11:19 UTC <----- wrong
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :003 > s.to_time :local
=> 2011-05-05 17:11:19 -0600 <----- better, sort of
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :004 > Time.parse s
=> 2011-05-05 17:11:19 -0600 <----- plain ruby wins
# see https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb
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