Looking for feedback on this ticket, which fixes some confusing behavior with Time objects in find conditions:
Currently, if your database is in UTC, and you pass Time.now into find conditions, ex:
Article.all :conditions => ['posted_at < ?', Time.now]
you'll get a query for a time that will be off by your system's UTC offset. This ticket fixes this.
The fix in this ticket will also allow AR time_zone_aware_attributes to work with default_timezone == :local, a combination that doesn't work correctly right now.