On 7 February 2013 10:25, Saravanan P <saravana...@shriramits.com> wrote:
Please don't top post, it makes it difficult to follow the thread. Insert your reply at appropriate points in previous message. Thanks. > Because my application will use in several country so I need to know what > time they are creating records. You will know the time (in UTC). If you store updated_at, for example, in the local timezone and you have one record with an update_at of 12:00 and another 13:00 (for a different user) then you would not know which came first. If they are all in UTC then you know the exact time it actually happened. Colin > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> On 7 February 2013 10:10, Saravanan P <saravana...@shriramits.com> wrote: >> > 1.9.3-p286 :001 > Time.zone.now >> > => Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:34:49 UTC +00:00 >> > 1.9.3-p286 :002 > Time.zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' >> > => "Eastern Time (US & Canada)" >> > 1.9.3-p286 :003 > Time.zone.now >> > => Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:35:00 EST -05:00 >> > >> > >> > Above is working well. >> > Case 1: >> > But i need to store each records in database with that time stamp. >> > i.e >> > created_at and updated_at need to be EST, not in UTC. >> >> Why? Don't do it, always store it in UTC. >> >> > >> > Case 2: >> > Also I need store all records created_at and updated_at with client >> > country time, if one client in NewYork, need to store their time and >> > other >> > person in India, their time need to store. >> >> Again why would you need to do that? >> >> Colin >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > > -- > Regards by > Saravanan.P > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
