jekyll 1.4.0 seems to not care what I set "timezone:" to

[jmhodges]

With a post with the front matter like:

---
title: Foobar Baz
date: 2013-12-09 08:15:00 -08:00
layout: post

---

and an index.html that renders the date as:

{{post.date | date: "%B %d, %Y %I:%M %p %Z"}}

and a _config.yml like:

timezone: "America/Los_Angeles"

the date is always printed with "UTC" as the timezone, changing it into:

December 09, 2013 04:15 PM UTC

No combination of setting TZ or formatting the date differently seems to work. This is on ruby 1.8.7.

[jmhodges]

Oh, and my gem list (all of which were installed specifically for jekyll):

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

blankslate (2.1.2.4)
classifier (1.3.3)
colorator (0.1)
commander (4.1.5)
fast-stemmer (1.0.2)
ffi (1.9.3)
highline (1.6.20)
jekyll (1.4.0)
json (1.8.1)
liquid (2.5.4)
listen (1.3.1)
maruku (0.7.0)
parslet (1.5.0)
posix-spawn (0.3.8)
pygments.rb (0.5.4)
rb-fsevent (0.9.3)
rb-inotify (0.9.2)
rb-kqueue (0.2.0)
redcarpet (2.3.0)
safe_yaml (0.9.7)
syntax (1.0.0)
toml (0.1.0)
yajl-ruby (1.1.0)

[parkr]

If you open up irb, does require 'time'; Time.parse("2013-12-09 08:15:00 -08:00") work?

[jmhodges]

Yep!

require 'time'; Time.parse("2013-12-09 08:15:00 -08:00")
=> Mon Dec 09 08:15:00 -0800 2013

(Note that the time in the original example correct, too. It's just shifted by the right amount to be in UTC.)

[parkr]

So it's only the frustration that {{ date }} always prints out a UTC string. If TZ, and timezone are set and there's an offset in your original string, you should be good to go. Time bending is so weird.

[jmhodges]

But those don't help, that's the bug.

[wdenton]

I have the same problem (with Jekyll 1.4.2 and Ruby 2.1.0). I've set

timezone = America/Toronto

but a line like

date | date_to_rfc822

converts a page or post timestamp that I entered as -0500 to being in UTC (-0000).

[ivantsepp]

This should be fixed by #1886. Could you try using the master branch in Jekyll to see if your problem is resolved?

[wdenton]

Works perfectly!

[duelinmarkers]

When might we expect gh-pages to have the #1886 fix? It's not clear to me what fixes get onto the 1.x-stable branch or what the purpose of the gh-pages branch is. If there's some explanation of all this, please point me at it. I didn't see anything on the jekyll wiki.

[parkr]

It appears #1942 has fixed this. Closing. Will release an Alpha of 2.0.0 soon with this fix.