How ActiveSupport knows user TimeZone

Question

I have my Linux server in New York, configured to GMT.

All my dates are being saved in UTC.

To return these dates to client, the only thing I need to do is ?

date = my_date.utc_to_local

No matters where my client is in the world ?

Do Rails knows where my client is ?

Read this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12326570/rails-how-to-get-the-current-users-time-zone-when-using-heroku — Max Williams, Nov 04 '15 at 10:43
It looks more complicated than I thought... I will consider using browser-timezone-rails gem. — Beetlejuice, Nov 04 '15 at 11:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '15 at 02:42

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By default, Rails will always store the date/times in UTC. If you don't like that, you can change it like this:

class Application < Rails::Application
  config.active_record.default_timezone = :local
end

No matter how the date/times are stored in the database it will always convert it to the application default timezone:

For example:

class Application < Rails::Application
  config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'
end

I hope that helps! Let me know if you want more details!

answered Nov 20 '15 at 02:42

Tom Rossi

Hi Tom, I´ve got this to work, partially, last week. I have some problems with TIME fields that I use to store only hours. I was seriously thinking to change all my TIME columns to DATETIME. – Beetlejuice Nov 20 '15 at 10:34

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