Dave, You can currently opt out of time zone aware attributes for specific attributes like so:
class Flight < ActiveRecord::Base ... self.skip_time_zone_conversion_for_attributes = [:departure_time, :arrival_time] ... end With this setup, no time zone conversions will be done for Flight#departure_time and #arrival time. Does this give you what you need? Geoff On Nov 25, 6:42 pm, Dave Rothlisberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've run into the following issue: > > My app has multiple users from multiple timezones. In the majority of > cases, I want datetime columns to take into account the user's > timezone. This works fine. > > However, for *one* particular datetime field, I want users to enter > the arrival date & time of a flight that is arriving into a country in > a different timezone to the user's timezone. Hence I don't want any > timezone conversion done on this particular field. > > e.g. a user in Germany enters the data for a flight that will arrive > in New Zealand on January 1st at 2:00pm. When a different user views > this data, I want it to say 2:00pm, regardless of the user's timezone. > > I don't see that the datetime_select helper allows me to specify a > timezone for the time I am selecting; but anyway, I don't want the > user to have to enter a timezone. > > I suppose the easiest (only?) solution is to store the data in > separate date and time fields in the database, and use separate > date_select and time_select helpers. > > Any comments? Should this functionality be something that datetimes / > datetime_select should support? > > Cheers > Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
