title: Timezone with rails 3
body: <p>I have pretty common issue but for some reason i have tried all the suggestions on the web and none seem to work. </p>
  
  <p>I have set the Timezone in config to 'EST'</p>
  
  <pre><code>config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when the time is shown on the the screen, it continues to show the UTC time that is stored in the DB. I tried the debugger and here is the output</p>
  
  <pre><code>(rdb:1) Time.zone 
  #&lt;ActiveSupport::TimeZone:0x1061f4760 @utc_offset=nil, @current_period=nil, @name="Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)", @tzinfo=#&lt;TZInfo::TimezoneProxy: America/New_York&gt;&gt;
  (rdb:1) Order.first.placed_at
  Fri Jan 01 15:00:00 UTC 2010
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Update: 
  Here is another user who has the same question
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3203304/rails-timezone-is-wrong-when-shown">Rails timezone is wrong when shown</a></p>