Why is the timezone off in delayed_job?

Question

In my Rails app, when I create a background job using the delayed_job gem, I get all times offset by 6 hours.

My understanding is that delayed_job uses your timezone

Answer 1

The problem was in my config/application.rb as @rainkinz suggested, specifically the 2nd line:

config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'
config.active_record.default_timezone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'

Apparently the default_timezone setting is deprecated after Rails 3.2.13, which I just upgraded from a few days ago.

When I changed it to only have the local time zone set:

config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'
#config.active_record.default_timezone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'

This fixed the problem. All active record objects still seem to have the correct time when saved, as do delayed_jobs.