# Timezone and tzinfo

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/timezone-and-tzinfo/176541>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 1, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/timezone-and-tzinfo/176541 "2009-10-01T20:51:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/timezone-and-tzinfo/176541/1 "2009-10-01T20:51:06Z")

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since rails added timezone support and integrated tzinfo, is there a  
difference in usine TimeZone vs Tzinfo::Timezone?

Is there a relationship between the two? Looking at the API docs there  
is more functionality in the latter.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/timezone-and-tzinfo/176541/2 "2009-10-01T22:08:24Z")

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Looking around it seems like TimeZone is the calss to use at least for  
storing timezones to make time displays in user’s local zone.