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Rails 4, Ruby 2.0.0-p247 date problem
Loading development environment (Rails 4.0.0)
2.0.0-p247 :001 > Date.today
=> Thu, 26 Sep 2013
2.0.0-p247 :002 > Date.tomorrow
=> Thu, 26 Sep 2013
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seanarnold commented Sep 25, 2013

This is a known 'issue' and is discussed in the Ruby on Rails guides here:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html

15.1.1 Date.current

Active Support defines Date.current to be today in the current time zone. That's like Date.today, except that it honors the user time zone, if defined. It also defines Date.yesterday and Date.tomorrow, and the instance predicates past?, today?, and future?, all of them relative to Date.current.

When making Date comparisons using methods which honor the user time zone, make sure to use Date.current and not Date.today. There are cases where the user time zone might be in the future compared to the system time zone, which Date.today uses by default. This means Date.today may equal Date.yesterday.

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