This might help: http://www.marklunds.com/articles/one/402
On Mar 6, 11:56 pm, Helmut Juskewycz <hjuskew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I know that there are already some discussions/posts about this issue, > however, none of them helped me to solve my problem. > > Disclaimer first: The application has done it already correctly, but > now the time conversation is broken and I don't know why. > > I am storing a start and end time in my application. > Here is the behavior I want: Both values should be stored in UTC in > the db (MySQL). Displaying the values to the user in the local time > zone. The user should also edit the value in the local time zone, but > they remain stored in UTC. > Here is the behavior I have: The time values are just stored and no > conversation at all. If I have 10:45 in a form, then 10:45 is stored > in the db, although I am in Time.zone = "Vienna". Basically all my > forms/views now show the wrong time. Before time was stored as 9:45 > and shown as 10:45 (with in_time_zone) and also edited as 10:45. > > here is my code/configs: > > environment.rb > config.active_record.default_timezone = :utc > # config.time_zone = 'UTC' # I tried already different combinations > > index.html.erb > <%= time_record.start_time.in_time_zone.to_formatted_s(:time) %> > > edit.html.erb > <%= f.form_row 'time_records.start_time', f.datetime_select > (:start_time) %> > > application.rb > def set_time_zone # before filter > zone = current_user.time_zone if logged_in? > zone ||= 'UTC' > Time.zone = zone > end > > I would really appreciate if someone could explain the behavior of > Time zones in Rails. I read posts and blogs > (e.ghttp://mad.ly/2008/04/09/rails-21-time-zone-support-an-overview/), but > I am still not sure how or better what Rails does? Sometimes I don't > know if Rails does convert the time or not, is it a bug or not ... > Like I said I appreciate every help I can get, since this problem cost > me a lot of time and is a show stopper. Thank you! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
