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

I found that the above solutions did not work on Heroku. I put this in my config/environments/production.rb Make sure you put it before your logger is initialized

Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do
# Override logging to spit out time in different zone to easier find user reported 
errors
# https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v3.2.14/railties/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb#L38
 def started_request_message(request)
  'Started %s "%s" for %s at %s' % [
    request.request_method,
    request.filtered_path,
    request.ip,
    Time.now.in_time_zone('Melbourne') ]
 end
end