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...able and run a before_filter to set the appropriate time zone so that everything is stored in the database in UTC. For the ''new'' form and for displaying the times in index and show actions, no problem at all. When the data is brought back out of the database and into a view, I use in_time_zone to adjust per the particular venue. The only issue is on the edit form. The date/time select is showing the data in UTC. When I''m working on the site, I mentally adjust, but for others it''s confusing. I''d like to do something along the lines of: <%= f.datetime_selec...

...trying to do it just simply now in the models, I think my problem raises a bigger question about Fat Models. But that''s another subject for another day. Right now, I have .... Event has_many meetings ## has an a invitation_expiry date field. def invitation_expired? DateTime.now.in_time_zone(''UTC'') >= event.invitation_expiry.in_time_zone(''UTC'') end Meeting belongs_to :event has_many :invitations def invitation_expired? event.invitation_expired? end Invitation belongs_to :meeting My problem is when an invitation is made, I want...

Here is the following from my console: >> Time.now => Mon Sep 22 11:33:34 +0200 2008 >> Time.now.utc_offset => 7200 >> TimeZone[Time.now.utc_offset] => #<TimeZone:0x11aea90 @tzinfo=nil, @utc_offset=7200, @name="Athens"> >> Time.now.in_time_zone(TimeZone[Time.now.utc_offset]) => Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:34:22 EEST +03:00 (I am in Spain - CET - and running on OS X with the correct timezone) The Time.now correctly gives me the time, and the correct UTC offset of 2 hours. It is the summer, so we are 2 hours ahead of UTC. We are still one hou...

I want to store, retrieve and handle all times inside my app in just one Timezone. => "New Delhi" for that I''ve set in my application.rb file, config.time_zone = "New Delhi" When i create a record like Event.create(:when => DateTime.new(2011, 5, 7, 16, 0, 0)) it creates an event record in my mysql db (local) with "when" field as "2011-05-07

Hello everyone, I am using rails 3.2.8. I want to change time zone to New York time. I changed following, but didn''t work #config/application.rb config.time_zone = ''Eastern Time (US & Canada)'' config.active_record.default_timezone = ''Eastern Time (US & Canada)'' If am wrong please clarify. Thank You! -- You received this message