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Rails: get #beginning_of_day in time zone

I have a default time zone setup for the rails application. And an instance of the Date object.

How can I get make Date#beginning_of_day to return the beginning of the day in the specified time zone, but not my local timezone.

Is there any other method to get beginning of the day time in the specified timezone for the given date?

date = Date.new(2014,10,29)

zone = ActiveSupport::TimeZone.new('CET')
date.foo(zone) # should return "Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 CET +01:00"

zone = ActiveSupport::TimeZone.new('UTC')
date.foo(zone) # should return "Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 UTC +00:00"
Solution 
  • time_zone = Time.zone # any time zone really
time_zone.local(date.year, date.month, date.day)

    Problem is, Date.beginning_of_day does not honor Time.zone in ActiveSupport 2.3

    Compare https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v2.3.11/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/calculations.rb#L64 (AS 2.3)

    to https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/calculations.rb#L74 and https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/zones.rb#L7 (AS 3)