Jonathan, You could use "Eastern Time (US & Canada)" as your timezone? Like this:
config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' Would this do the trick? /Lasse 2010/3/26 J Graham <[email protected]> > Hello, > > I've Googled and searched for this for many hours now and couldn't > find an answer although I did find a lot about timezones and rails. > > Specifically I'm attaching a basic Rails CRUD frontend onto a legacy > database. The datetime fields in the database are stored as Eastern > Standard Time. There is a lot of legacy code that uses this database > and is expecting to get back times in EST, so I can't change them to > UTC. > > Is there a way in Rails to tell ActiveRecord to use Eastern for > storing the datetime fields? > > I've tried a number of combinations for config.time_zone and > config.active_record.default_timezone. FYI, rake time:zones:local > returns * UTC -06:00 * Central Time (US & Canada). > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Jonathan > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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 [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-talk?hl=en.
