Hi Daryl,

I'm still living in 2.3 land, but one thing I often see is using Time.now vs 
Time.zone.now

Also, in test_helper (not sure the rails 3.0 equivalent), I needed to set a 
default Time.zone - otherwise the Time.zone is nil, so Time.zone.now throws 
exceptions

--Keenan
On May 3, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Daryl wrote:

> Hey there herokuistas,
> 
> So, I'm using Rails 3.0.0.beta3 and am trying to get the default time
> in my app to be London while the servers, as you know, are on Pacific
> time (I'm in Aus myself).
> 
> I've set the application_controller.rb to have a before filter which
> sets the timezone and then sets that to London (I still want AR to
> write to the DB in UTC, so have not touched the environment/
> application.rb).
> 
> ===
>  before_filter :set_timezone
> 
>  def set_timezone
>    Time.zone = 'London'
>  end
> ===
> 
> Checking heroku console `date` *still* shows the machines on Pacific
> time, as does a check of the code when I got there (it should show
> Monday but instead stuck on Sunday at the mo).
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get the code to see this as
> London time ?
> 
> Also, I've asked the fine folks at heroku to reset the daily cron to
> go off at 1.15am London time and just wondering if changing this
> setting to London time will then affect that daily cron job kicking
> off.
> 
> Any help appreciated! A bit stumped here. Thanks !
> Daryl.
> 
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