Why does Heroku log using the server time rather than the Rails time zone?

Question

UPDATE: Ok, I didn\'t formulate a good Q to be answered. I still struggle with heroku being on -07:00 UTC and I at +02:00 UTC.

Q: How do I get the log writte

Answer 1

Without being able to change the actual server time (which I don't think you'll be able to do on Heroku), your only option is to convert the times yourself.

If Time.zone.now is too cumbersome, you could set a global timezone using the tzinfo gem:

$tz = TZInfo::Timezone.get("Europe/Oslo")
$tz.now # current time in Norway

But this is still a global change in your app and not significantly different from what you're doing.