# Hosting timezone differs of clients timezone

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-timezone-differs-of-clients-timezone/63732>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 18, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-timezone-differs-of-clients-timezone/63732 "2006-06-18T13:42:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-timezone-differs-of-clients-timezone/63732/1 "2006-06-18T13:42:49Z")

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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.

Carlos Alberto Paramio Danta .–.  
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**Author:** ![carlosparamio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@carlosparamio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/carlosparamio)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-timezone-differs-of-clients-timezone/63732/2 "2006-06-18T15:59:41Z")

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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/](http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/) – DST-aware timezone library for Ruby

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**Author:** ![carlosparamio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@carlosparamio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/carlosparamio)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-timezone-differs-of-clients-timezone/63732/3 "2006-06-21T07:51:33Z")

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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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