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.... Sorry if this is a reposting. When using :priority_zones for time_zone_select in a manner described by the API docs for ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper I''m getting errors. Here is an API docs example: time_zone_select( "user", ''time_zone'', TimeZone.us_zones, :default => "Pacific Time (US & Canada)") When using this code I get "uninitialized constant ActionView::CompiledTemplates::TimeZone". The first thing I noticed was that TimeZone is camel cased. This seems confusing to me considering TZInfo::Timezone is proper cas...

When using :priority_zones for time_zone_select in a manner described by the API docs for ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper I''m getting errors. Here is an API docs example: time_zone_select( "user", ''time_zone'', TimeZone.us_zones, :default => "Pacific Time (US & Canada)") When using this code I get "uninitialized constant ActionView::CompiledTemplates::TimeZone". The first thing I noticed was that TimeZone is camel cased. This seems confusing to me considering TZInfo::Timezone is proper cased. I...

Quick question I have can easily create a nice time zone select with <%= time_zone_select("account", "time_zone", TimeZone.us_zones ) %> How can I select the default time zone that I want? Thanks, Zack

Is it possible to get timezone abbreviations using the TimeZone or TzinfoTimezone classes? Even after converting UTC to localtime it still reports the timezone abbreviation as UTC. Example: >> @tz = TzinfoTimezone.us_zones[2] => #<TzinfoTimezone:0x30868a0 @utc_offset=-28800, @name="Pacific Time (US & Canada)"> >> @tz.now => Wed Jan 24 12:36:56 UTC 2007 >> @tz.now.strftime("%Z") => "UTC" It seems to me that the timezone abbreviation (%Z) should be "PST...

...New york” or “ Europe-Athens” format at the top of drop down list using Tzinfo . I am presently using “time_zone_select” which displays US zones on top of drop down in “ America-New york” format . <%= time_zone_select (''profile'', ''time_zone'',TZInfo::Timezone.us_zones, :model => TZInfo::Timezone, :default => "America/Chicago" )%> I can display US zones in “ (GMT - 06:00 ) CentralTime (US & Canada)” by using standard rails TimeZone ( <%= time_zone_select (''profile'', ''time_zone'' > ) . But , I will h...

For various reasons we need to use the CONVERT_TZ() function in mysql to convert times during queries. The timezone to be used in the conversion is based on the timezone the user selected when setting up their profile (from a select box populated with ActiveSupport::TimeZone.us_zone). The problem is that the zone names in rails differ from the names in MySQL. In rails we have a name like