% ruby -v !10391 ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [universal-darwin11.0] % bundle exec rails console Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.11) >> Time.now => Tue Apr 03 13:07:13 +0300 2012 >> Time.zone => #, @name="UTC", @utc_offset=nil, @current_period=nil> >> Time.zone = "Chihuahua" => "Chihuahua" >> Time.zone.now => Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:07:30 MDT -06:00 >> Time.zone.now.to_date => 2012-04-02