Ruby on Rails Time.zone.now

Question

I am using Time.zone.now to get the user's time.

I think that this is wrong. Can you confirm that it is wrong? How can I get the user's time?

Who is setting Time.zone on my server?

Answer 1

Yes this is wrong. Time.zone is whatever your application's timezone is set to. This is usually set in application.rb

config.time_zone = 'UTC'

If you want a user's timezone, you'll need to either get it from the client side via JavaScript or let the user set it themselves in your application.