Dates and timezones - inconsistency with detected timezone

Ruby Questions
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I’m working on a system which needs to be timezone aware, however I’ve come across an odd discrepancy. Consider the following:

x = DateTime.parse("2017-02-01 12:00:00+0200")
puts x.t_time.inspect

The result given is (correctly) returned to me in my current timezone of -0800

However, if I perform the following:

y = Date.today - 1
puts y.to_time.inspect

I end up getting a result in -0700

I fail to understand how this is happening or even how I correct it. When looking up time zone manipulation in Ruby, all I got was “good luck” (from an actual documentation site).

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You are sure, that the country, you are working from, didn’t have daylight savings back in February?

I’m currently in Denmark, where we are +0200 at the moment, but were +0100 on February 1st, thus:

DateTime.parse("2017-02-01 12:00:00+0200").to_time # => 2017-02-01 11:00:00 +0100
DateTime.parse("2017-07-01 12:00:00+0200").to_time # => 2017-07-01 12:00:00 +0200
(Date.today - 1).to_time                           # => 2017-06-19 00:00:00 +0200
(Date.today - 91).to_time                          # => 2017-03-21 00:00:00 +0100
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Daaaaamn, you are absolutely correct! Thank you so much Ohm!