Time zone varies when ruby version varies why?

Question

I am running Rails 3.0.1 with Ruby 1.9.2p290.In rails c

Time.zone

gives

 => (GMT+00:00) UTC

In my friends rails console [Rails 3.0.1, Ruby 1.8.7]

Time.zone

gives

#<ActiveSupport::TimeZone:0xb75834fc @tzinfo=#<TZInfo::TimezoneProxy: Etc/UTC>, @utc_offset=nil, @current_period=nil, @name="UTC">

Why different result for same code?

Answer 1

It just looks like the Ruby 1.9.2 class has a better inspect method. Have you tried comparing what classes are involved?

Time.zone
# => (GMT+00:00) UTC
Time.zone.class
# => ActiveSupport::TimeZone

The class is just a wrapper around the core Ruby class, so if 1.9.2 has a better TimeZone object then it will appear differently.