Looking for feedback on this ticket, which fixes some confusing behavior with Time objects in find conditions: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2946-quoted_date-converts-time-objects-to-default_timezone Currently, if your database is in UTC, and you pass Time.now into find conditions, ex: Article.all :conditions => [''posted_at < ?'', Time.now] you''ll get a query for a time that will be off by your system''s UTC offset. This ticket fixes this. The fix in this ticket will also allow AR time_zone_aware_attributes to work with default_timezone == :local, a combination that doesn''t work correctly right now.