Question

I have Rails3 application with model user and field expires_at created like this:

t.column :expires_at, :timestamp

In my database (postgresql) it has type:

timestamp without timezone

The problem is when I call:

@user.expires_at = Time.now
@user.save

it is saved into database with UTC timezone (my local time is UTC + 1:00, Warsaw) but I don’t want that. I just want to have time with my local timezone saved into the database (2011-03-30 01:29:01.766709, not 2011-03-29 23:29:01.766709)

Can I achieve this using rails3?

Answer 1

For saving time in local timezone to database this has to be set in application.rb

 config.active_record.default_timezone = :local