Translating Rails Timezones

Question

We internationalized our site months ago, but forgot one part: The drop down where a user picks their timezone.

How do you translate the following line:

Answer 1

The accepted answer from @DaveHollingworth worked for us under Rails 3.2, but we hit the error reported by @NazarHlynskyi when we upgraded to Rails 4.2:

NoMethodError (undefined method [] for nil:NilClass)

To work around this I have resorted to monkey patching the ActiveSupport::TimeZone, with the #to_s method above.

So now in config/initializers/time_zone.rb we have the following

class ActiveSupport::TimeZone
  def to_s
    translated_name = I18n.t(name, :scope => :timezones, :default => name)
    "(GMT#{formatted_offset}) #{translated_name}"
  end
end

and we no longer have the separate I18nTimeZone model.

Monkey-patching may not be to your liking, in which case you will probably need to get a bit more intimate with the internal changes to ActiveSupport::TimeZone in order to recreate the behaviour, but the monkey-patching option provided a quick resolution for us.