title: Handling time/date-time without timezone in Ruby/Rails
body: <p>I'm building an app which has a database of businesses and they have attributes like the opening/closing times, e.g. <code>9:00 – 18:00</code>. Also there is a whole lot of other object which has some time/date info associated.</p>
  
  <p>Those objects are located in different time zones, and the app generally doesn't care where exactly they are. The site editors and the end users of the app are also in different time zones.</p>
  
  <p>And I'm looking for a very simple thing — I want the date/time object submitted by  an editor to be stored exactly as it was submitted and then the end users should see exactly the same date/time value.</p>
  
  <p>And everything is good in the JavaScript-land, Postgres is also happy to save whatever datetime I give it, but Rails tries to apply its Timezone logic everywhere — and I don't want it to be neither UTC, neither local, neither any other time zone — I want to just store the raw value — and it seems that Ruby (and Rails) just don't have such a simple concept at all.</p>
  
  <p>I don't really want to store date/times as numbers or strings, neither I don't want to use ruby Time objects as it seems that they always have a concept of the timezone.</p>
  
  <p>So I wonder — is there any ruby library to handle date/times without zones?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>