Rails 3 Timezone error

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Published on 2010-05-31T14:02:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 9:44 UTC
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I am struggling with time zone support in Rails 3 beta and I would like to know if it is a bug or if I am doing something wrong. He is the problem:

> Time.zone = 'Madrid'  # it is GMT+2
 => "Madrid" 
> c = Comment.new
 => #<Comment id: nil, title: "", pub_at: nil>
> c.pub_at = Time.zone.parse('10:00:00')
 => Mon, 31 May 2010 10:00:00 CEST +02:00 
> c.save
> c
 => #<Comment id: 3, title: "", pub_at: "2010-05-31 08:00:00">
> c.reload
 => #<Comment id: 3, title: "", pub_at: "2010-05-31 08:00:00">
ruby-1.8.7-p249 > c.pub_at
 => Mon, 31 May 2010 13:00:00 CEST +02:00

As you can see, the pub_at attribute is stored correctly in the database but when it is retrieved it adds 3 hours and I suspect that it is because it is using my local machine timezone that is in GMT-3.

The same sequence of commands in rails 2.3.5 works perfectly.

Any toughts? Should I report a ticket?

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