Ruby on Rails

On 22 August 2013 00:59, Andrew Havens <andrewh@copiousinc.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Rails application with a default time zone of UTC. This works fine
> for almost everything. Now I have a situation where I would like to present
> the values in a datetime_select offset by a specific time zone. As far as I
> know, this helper does not have an option to specify the time zone that is
> used when persisting this data. When the form is submitted, it only sends
> the year, month, day, hour, and minute fields. ActiveRecord is responsible
> for converting these values into the time zone configured for the
> application. In this case, I want to change the time zone for only these
> fields so that it is localized to the user (but still store the correct UTC
> time). How can I make this change? Thanks for your help!

You could adjust the values in the controller prior to saving the data.

Colin

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