How to display the time in user's timezone

Question

I am using rails 3.0.5 and I have created_at and updated_at stored in UTC. Now I want to display the created_at time in users\' timezone. I believe it is possible to pick us

Answer 1

You can add this to your application controller to convert all times to the User's timezone:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  around_filter :user_time_zone, :if => :current_user
  def user_time_zone(&block)
    Time.use_zone(current_user.timezone_name, &block)
  end
end

You just have to capture the user's timezone