Hosting timezone differs of clients timezone

Rails
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Hi,

I have a website in production wich uses a lot of date and time
calculations to show specific information.

The timezone of my hosting service (Dreamhost) is PDT, and the timezone
of my potential clients is CEST. There are 9 hours of difference between
them.

Is there an environment variable that I could adjust in my rails
application, so all date/time values be set to CEST timezone?

Thanks.

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Carlos P. wrote:

I have a website in production wich uses a lot of date and time
calculations to show specific information.

The timezone of my hosting service (Dreamhost) is PDT, and the timezone
of my potential clients is CEST. There are 9 hours of difference between
them.

Is there an environment variable that I could adjust in my rails
application, so all date/time values be set to CEST timezone?

Set the TZ environment variable in your config/environment.rb file.
E.g.:

ENV[‘TZ’] = ‘Europe/Madrid’

The allowed values for TZ can be found by looking in the
/usr/share/zoneinfo directory.

–
Philip R.
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ – DST-aware timezone library for Ruby

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Philip,

It worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!

Philip R. escribió:

Set the TZ environment variable in your config/environment.rb file. E.g.:

ENV[‘TZ’] = ‘Europe/Madrid’

The allowed values for TZ can be found by looking in the
/usr/share/zoneinfo directory.

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