Ignoring time zones altogether in Rails and PostgreSQL

Question

I\'m dealing with dates and times in Rails and Postgres and running into this issue:

The database is in UTC.

The user sets a time-zone of choice in the Rails

Answer 1

If you want to deal in UTC by default:

In config/application.rb, add:

config.time_zone = 'UTC'

Then, if you store the current user timezone name is current_user.timezone you can say.

post.created_at.in_time_zone(current_user.timezone)

current_user.timezone should be a valid timezone name, otherwise you will get ArgumentError: Invalid Timezone, see full list.