I was working with the method "in_time_zone" for the class ActiveSupport::TimeZone, when I found an unwanted behavior. I want to set my sights so that display the times for the main zone of Brazil (UTC-3). During the period not DST there is no problem. Instead to view the times for the period DST there are a problem: the southern Brazilian states adopt DST (which means UTC-2), while the states in the north do not use DST (which means UTC-3). then to overcome this I was going to do this: #on application.rb config.time_zone = ''Brasilia'' #on a generic view <% # generate a time in the summer austral hemisphere time_in_summer_austral_hemisphere = Time.local(2010,1,1) # set the timezone to UTC-2 (DST zone) time_in_brazilian_dst time_in_summer_austral_hemisphere.in_time_zone(-2) # set the timezone to UTC-3 ( zone without DST) time_in_brazilian_not_dst time_in_summer_austral_hemisphere.in_time_zone(-3) puts time_in_brazilian_dst # Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GST -02:00 puts time_in_brazilian_not_dst Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 BRST -02:00 %> As you can see, both the conversion to UTC-2 or UTC-3 shows that the same time anyone have any idea why this behavior? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.