I have run into that problem multiple times, and I have used this gem to 
deal with it: https://github.com/ankane/groupdate

It only supports MySQL and PostgreSQL, so a solution that works across 
different databases would be welcome, in my view.

On Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:32:41 UTC+11, Leonardo D. Schlossmacher 
wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this fits in Rails' core but since I spent sometime trying 
> to solve a problem and couldn't find any solution, I decided to share this 
> method I've created to extend ActiveRecord::Relation.
>
> Here's a Gist of it: https://gist.github.com/leods92/7164159
>
> The problem is that when we try grouping timestamps by date, SQL returns 
> unexpected results as it's not aware of time zones.
> Rails though is aware of them so I believe it should be used to handle 
> this issue properly.
> By using #group_date one can get any set of records grouped by date from a 
> timestamp column.
> This is very common to generate statistics.
>
> What do you guys think of it?
> Have you ever stumbled on a similar problem?
> How have you dealt with it?
>

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