Question

In my application.rb I came across the following comment

# Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone.
# Run "rake -D time" for a list of tasks for finding time zone names. Default is UTC.
 config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'

As you see from above, I’ve made config.time_zone to EST time. However, still when records are created in the DB, it looks like datetime is being stored in UTC format.

In the above comment, they say

…and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone…

How can I do that, and where?

Also, I’ll be deploying this on heroku as well and i’d like the setting to carry over

Answer 1

adding following to application.rb works

 config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'
 config.active_record.default_timezone = :local # Or :utc