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⏰ Still struggling with Time Zone issues in your Rails app?

After hours of debugging strange timestamps and inconsistent created_at values, I finally decided to write the definitive guide to solving these problems — permanently. 🧠🔧

In this post, I cover:

The difference between DateTime.now and Time.zone.now

How to configure your Rails app properly

How to sync Docker containers with your local time

How to align your servers (Heroku, AWS, DigitalOcean) with your app’s expectations

Plus a couple of light jokes to help with the headache this topic usually causes 😅

👉 Check out the full article here: 🔗 https://rubystacknews.com/2025/04/30/%e2%9a%a0%ef%b8%8f-the-definitive-solution-to-your-rails-docker-time-zone-headaches-%f0%9f%98%b5%f0%9f%92%ab%e2%8f%b1%ef%b8%8f/

Let me know if this helped or if you’re facing any edge cases. Happy to chat or help! 🙌 #RubyOnRails #Docker #TimeZones #WebDevelopment #RailsTips #DevLife

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