Jonathan? 2010/3/27 Colin Law <[email protected]>
> On 26 March 2010 21:43, Lasse Bunk <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? > > No, because it expects the times in the db to be in UTC and will > convert them (wrongly) to EST on reading and writing. > > Colin > > > > /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]<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]<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.
