auto_timezone

AutoTimezone

Automatically infer and set Time.zone with each request. The available (and configurable) strategies include:

• Using the timezone offset provided by the browser. [Now supports Daylight Savings Time]
• Using a value stored on current_user (or anything accessible in the context of the controller)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'auto_timezone'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Lastly, add this line to the top of your application.js (it has no dependencies):

//= require auto_timezone

Usage

Without any additional configuration, your application should start honoring timezone by asking the browser for the offset from UTC time.

To install the auto_timezone.rb configuration initializer, execute:

$ rails g auto_timezone:install

Check out the generated auto_timezone.rb for more configuration settings.

Limitations

Currently, the auto-inferred timezone will only take effect after the first pageload.

For the first pageload, you may want to set a more useful default timezone in application.rb:

config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'

To Do

• Implement jsTimezoneDetect strategy
• Implement tests
• Infer or approximate timezone during initial web request (somehow...)

Contributing

• Fork it ( https://github.com/smudge/auto_timezone/fork )
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create a new Pull Request