config.active_record.default_timezone = :local ... Doesn't seem to have any effect

config.active_record.default_timezone = :local ... Doesn't seem to have
any effect

The configuration for active_record.default_timezone does not seem to work
as advertised. I expected that after setting:
config.active_record.default_timezone = :local
(in config/application.rb) that outputting a time retrieved from the db
would show an offset in the local timezone.
2.0.0p247 :016 > user = User.new name: "Tom", email: "tom@gmail.com"
=> #<User id: nil, name: "Tom", email: "tom@gmail.com", created_at: nil,
updated_at: nil>
2.0.0p247 :017 > user.save
(0.3ms) SAVEPOINT active_record_1
SQL (0.8ms) INSERT INTO "users" ("created_at", "email", "name",
"updated_at") VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4) RETURNING "id" [["created_at",
Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:38:22 UTC +00:00], ["email", "tom@gmail.com"],
["name", "Tom"], ["updated_at", Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:38:22 UTC +00:00]]
(0.7ms) RELEASE SAVEPOINT active_record_1
=> true
2.0.0p247 :018 > puts user.created_at
2013-09-08 23:38:22 UTC <----------+
=> nil |
|---- WHY DON'T THESE HAVE THE SAME
OFFSET???
2.0.0p247 :019 > Time.now |
=> 2013-09-08 17:38:36 +0200 <------+
2.0.0p247 :020 > Rails.application.config.active_record.default_timezone
=> :local
2.0.0p247 :021 >
2.0.0p247 :022 > Rails.application.config
=> #<Rails::Application::Configuration:0x00000100af1508
@root=#<Pathname:/Users/7stud/rails_projects/test_postgres>,
@generators=#<Rails::Configuration::Generators:0x00000100ff3128
@aliases={}, @options={:rails=>{:orm=>:active_record,
:test_framework=>:rspec, :integration_tool=>:rspec,
:stylesheet_engine=>:scss, :javascript_engine=>:coffee,
:scaffold_controller=>:jbuilder_scaffold_controller,
:json_template_engine=>:jbuilder}, :active_record=>{:migration=>true,
:timestamps=>true}, :test_unit=>{:fixture=>true,
:fixture_replacement=>nil}}, @fallbacks={}, @templates=[],
@colorize_logging=true, @hidden_namespaces=["sass"]>, @encoding="utf-8",
@allow_concurrency=nil, @consider_all_requests_local=true,
@filter_parameters=[:password], @filter_redirect=[],
@helpers_paths=["/Users/7stud/rails_projects/test_postgres/app/helpers"],
@serve_static_assets=true, @static_cache_control=nil, @force_ssl=false,
@ssl_options={}, @session_store=:cookie_store,
@session_options={:key=>"_test_postgres_session", :cookie_only=>true},
@time_zone="UTC", @beginning_of_week=:monday, @log_level=:debug,
@middleware=#<ActionDispatch::MiddlewareStack:0x00000100fa5158
@middlewares=[ActionDispatch::Static, Rack::Lock,
#<ActiveSupport::Cache::Strategy::LocalCache::Middleware:0x00000102a2e6c8>,
Rack::Runtime, Rack::MethodOverride, ActionDispatch::RequestId,
Rails::Rack::Logger, ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions,
ActionDispatch::DebugExceptions, ActionDispatch::RemoteIp,
ActionDispatch::Reloader, ActionDispatch::Callbacks,
ActiveRecord::Migration::CheckPending,
ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionManagement,
ActiveRecord::QueryCache, ActionDispatch::Cookies,
ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore, ActionDispatch::Flash,
ActionDispatch::ParamsParser, Rack::Head, Rack::ConditionalGet,
Rack::ETag]>, @cache_store=[:file_store,
"/Users/7stud/rails_projects/test_postgres/tmp/cache/"],
@railties_order=[:all], @relative_url_root=nil,
@reload_classes_only_on_change=true,
@file_watcher=ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker, @exceptions_app=nil,
@autoflush_log=true,
@log_formatter=#<ActiveSupport::Logger::SimpleFormatter:0x00000100af8c18
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@assets={:enabled=>true, :paths=>[],
:precompile=>[#<Proc:0x00000100b02970@/Users/7stud/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/railties-4.0.0/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb:54>,
/(?:\/|\\|\A)application\.(css|js)$/], :prefix=>"/assets",
:version=>"1.0", :debug=>false, :compile=>true, :digest=>false,
:cache_store=>[:file_store,
"/Users/7stud/rails_projects/test_postgres/tmp/cache/assets/development/"],
:js_compressor=>nil, :css_compressor=>nil,
:initialize_on_precompile=>true, :logger=>nil},
@paths=#<Rails::Paths::Root:0x00000100b1b6a0 @current=nil,
@path=#<Pathname:/Users/7stud/rails_projects/test_postgres>,
@root={"app"=>#<Rails::Paths::Path:0x00000100b1b2e0 @paths=["app"],
@current="app", @root=#<Rails::Paths::Root:0x00000100b1b6a0 ...>,
@glob="*", @autoload_once=false, @eager_load=true, @autoload=false,
@load_path=false>, "app/assets"=>#<Rails::Paths::Path:0x00000100b1aef8
@paths=["app/assets"], @current="app/assets",
@root=#<Rails::Paths::Root:0x00000100b1b6a0 ...>, @glob="*",
@autoload_once=false, @eager_load=false, @autoload=false,
@load_path=false>,
"app/controllers"=>#<Rails::Paths::Path:0x00000100b1ac50
@paths=["app/controllers"], @current="app/controllers",
@root=#<Rails::Paths::Root:0x00000100b1b6a0 ...>, @glob=nil,
@autoload_once=false, @eager_load=true, @autoload=false,
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@root=#<Rails::Paths::Root:0x00000100b1b6a0 ...>, @glob=nil,
@autoload_once=false, @eager_load=true, @autoload=false,
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@autoload_once=false, @eager_load=true, @autoload=false,
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@autoload_once=false, @eager_load=true, @autoload=false,
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@autoload_once=false, @eager_load=false, @autoload=false,
@load_path=false>,
"config/locales"=>#<Rails::Paths::Path:0x00000100b212a8
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@root=#<Rails::Paths::Root:0x00000100b1b6a0 ...>, @glob="*.{rb,yml}",
@autoload_once=false, @eager_load=false, @autoload=false,
@load_path=false>,
"config/routes.rb"=>#<Rails::Paths::Path:0x00000100b20d58
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"/Users/7stud/rails_projects/test_postgres/app/mailers",
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config/application.rb:
require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)
require 'rails/all'
# Require the gems listed in Gemfile, including any gems
# you've limited to :test, :development, or :production.
Bundler.require(:default, Rails.env)
module TestPostgres
class Application < Rails::Application
# Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those
specified here.
# Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
# -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.
# Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record
auto-convert to this zone.
# Run "rake -D time" for a list of tasks for finding time zone names.
Default is UTC.
# config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'
config.active_record.default_timezone = :local
# The default locale is :en and all translations from
config/locales/*.rb,yml are auto loaded.
# config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('my', 'locales',
'*.{rb,yml}').to_s]
# config.i18n.default_locale = :de
end
end