`Faker::Time.backward (.forward)` may generate time which is greater (less) than the current time about faker HOT 4 CLOSED

The problem has been resolved in the mentioned MR to the Ruby on Rails.

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I also note that Faker::Time.between returns time in the application time zone, whereas Faker::Time.backward (.forward) returns time in UTC.

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Hello. After some thinking, I realized that the problem may be not in the Faker gem. May be it is Rails testing helper #travel_to who breaks Date.today:

I run test:

it "TEST" do
  t = Time.current.beginning_of_day
  travel_to t do
    debugger
  end
end

and made experiments:

(byebug) Time.now
2023-11-30 21:00:00 +0000
(byebug) Date.current
Fri, 01 Dec 2023
(byebug) Date.today
Fri, 01 Dec 2023
(byebug) Rails.version
"7.0.8"

I think that Date.today must equal to 2023-11-30 in this case.

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Nice find! Thanks for fixing the problem!

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