Question

When I use return the time that the record created, it show this :

2010-01-20 15:04:40 UTC

but I want the time in my specify time zone, for example, China. Is there any convenient method in RoR?

Answer 1

Configure your time zone in config/environment.rb to have Rails cast all timestamps to this time zone.

config.time_zone = 'Berlin'

As an alternative you can always use something like

Time.utc(2000).in_time_zone('Alaska') 

See the documentation here.