Always call Time#localtime to translate to TZ'd time.

features/site_configuration.feature

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Feature: Site configuration
       And I have an "index.html" page with layout "page" that contains "site index page"
       And I have a configuration file with:
         | key         | value               |
-        | timezone    | Australia/Sydney |
+        | timezone    | Australia/Melbourne |
       And I have a _posts directory
       And I have the following posts:
         | title     | date                   | layout  | content             |

features/step_definitions/jekyll_steps.rb

@@ -193,7 +193,15 @@ Then /^I should see escaped "(.*)" in "(.*)"$/ do |text, file|
 end
 
 Then /^the "(.*)" file should +exist$/ do |file|
-  assert File.file?(file), "The file \"#{file}\" does not exist"
+  file_does_exist = File.file?(file)
+  unless file_does_exist
+    all_steps_to_path(file).each do |dir|
+      STDERR.puts ""
+      STDERR.puts "Dir #{dir}:"
+      STDERR.puts Dir["#{dir}/**/*"]
+    end
+  end
+  assert file_does_exist, "The file \"#{file}\" does not exist.\n"
 end
 
 Then /^the "(.*)" file should not exist$/ do |file|

features/support/env.rb

@@ -13,6 +13,17 @@ def source_dir(*files)
   File.join(TEST_DIR, *files)
 end
 
+def all_steps_to_path(path)
+  source = Pathname.new(source_dir('_site')).expand_path
+  dest   = Pathname.new(path).expand_path
+  paths  = []
+  dest.ascend do |f|
+    break if f.eql? source
+    paths.unshift f.to_s
+  end
+  paths
+end
+
 def jekyll_output_file
   JEKYLL_COMMAND_OUTPUT_FILE
 end

lib/jekyll/filters.rb

@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ module Jekyll
       else
         Jekyll.logger.error "Invalid Date:", "'#{input}' is not a valid datetime."
         exit(1)
-      end
+      end.localtime
     end
 
     def groupable?(element)

lib/jekyll/utils.rb

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ module Jekyll
     # Returns the parsed date if successful, throws a FatalException
     # if not
     def parse_date(input, msg = "Input could not be parsed.")
-      Time.parse(input)
+      Time.parse(input).localtime
     rescue ArgumentError
       raise Errors::FatalException.new("Invalid date '#{input}': " + msg)
     end

script/cucumber

@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
-ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia
-
 time bundle exec cucumber \
   -f Features::Support::Overview \
   "$@"