I am no expert on this but Timezone works ok for me on Rails 2.2.2 so my
comments below may help.
Which version of Rails are you using?
2009/3/31 Rick Schumeyer <rschume...@ieee.org>
>
> My environment.rb contains
> config.time_zone = 'UTC'
Where is this located in environent.rb. Mine is inside the do |config| ..
end block. Also I have 'London' rather than 'UTC' though I doubt if this is
the problem. Anything is worth trying though.
>
>
> If my understanding is correct, rails should assume time values coming
> from the database are UTC, and since config.time_zone is set to 'UTC',
> it should not try to convert the times.
>
> Instead, rails is assuming that the db values are Eastern (my local
> zone) and is incorrectly adding four hours to convert to what it
> thinks is UTC. Either my understanding of how this is supposed to
> work is wrong, or something needs to be fixed.
>
> I created a test table in a SQL Server database with one row. The
> table is called events and
> contains an "edate" column. The value is "2009-03-30 12:00", and is a
> UTC time.
Are you sure SQL Server is not adjusting the value for you before it gets to
Rails, thinking that you want it in local time?
Have you tried picking the query up out of the rails log and entering that
directly into SQL server to see what you get?
>
>
> The output from script/console is below. (results are identical to
> using a browser)
>
> What else do I need to do to convince rails to leave the time value
> alone, since it *is* a UTC value?
>
> I can get the correct value by extracting the "Time" with no zone, and
> then recreating a new TimeWithZone. But that can't be the best way!
>
> Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.2)
> >> Time.zone
>
> => #<ActiveSupport::TimeZone:0xb795cbc8 @tzinfo=nil, @utc_offset=0,
> @name="UTC">
> >> event=Event.find(1)
>
> => #<Event id: 1, edate: "2009-03-30 12:00:00">
>
>> event.edate
>
> => Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:00 UTC +00:00
The fact that this is showing the wrong time but the one above shows
apparently the right one does suggest that Rails thinks that the zone is
your local zone for some reason, as you have surmised.
> >> zutc= ActiveSupport::TimeZone.new('UTC')
>
> => #<ActiveSupport::TimeZone:0xb795cbc8
> @tzinfo=#<TZInfo::DataTimezone: Etc/UTC>, @utc_offset=0, @name="UTC">
> >> correct_time =
> ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone.new(event.edate.localtime,zutc)
>
> => Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:00:00 UTC +00:00
> >
>
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