http://railscasts.com/episodes/106-time-zones-in-rails-2-1
http://www.elabs.se/blog/36-working-with-time-zones-in-ruby-on-rails http://www.elabs.se/blog/36-working-with-time-zones-in-ruby-on-rails On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > -- -- 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.
