Rails TimeZone in Production

Question

My Server is USA West Coast but all the time that is recorded in the MySQL server should be done in UTC so that i can implement TimeZone for Users at the later date. Right now Configuring to Indian Timing.

Is there any configuration i need to do to get this working. i have added the following:

//application.rb
config.time_zone = 'UTC'
config.active_record.default_timezone :utc

Is there any other settings i need to do to tell rails that please save content in the UTC?

Answer 1

In rails application the time recorded in MySQL is automatically taken in UTC. What happens is when you give config.time_zone = 'UTC' in application.rb , the rails converts that time from UTC (stored in MySQL) to the timezone specified in application.rb . So I think there is nothing required to do that.

Hope this helps.