> 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.
Yes Colin you are correct. I have to try using UTC time to show customer their times. i.e Their recored created time. and > 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 Thanks for the reply On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:09 PM, rajeevsharma86 <rajeevsharm...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
