Rails app config.time_zone not applying when populating form fields for '/edit' view

Question

I specified config.time_zone in my Rails app, but the retrieved times in form fields still render as the UTC (which creates problems on updates). Shouldn\'t this be convert

Answer 1

It turns out the real problem was in the text_fields themselves.

My 'config.time_zone' setting was working just fine (without any extra methods or hacks) in my 'index' and 'show' views, and it worked in the 'edit' view, too, as long as I used a datetime_select instead of a text_field.

As this wasn't an option for me (I was using jQuery UI's DatePicker, which needs a text_field), I investigated the text_field specific problem and answered another StackOverflow question of my own on the subject.

If you're having the text_field problem, check out that question/answer.

Answer 2

Just use this:

  <div class="field">
    <%= f.label :time_start %><br />
    <%= f.datetime_select :time_start, :class => "datetimefield" %>
  </div>

I create a little app for this and it's works.

Answer 3

You can do something like this:

heroku config:add TZ=America/Chicago

That should fix your issue on Heroku.