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This is the price to pay when you "love" Black Magic frameworks. As you can see, Rails' ActiveRecord will override timezone for all time/datetime attributes up to your "rails configuration". There is nothing to do about it. This is the Rails way. Nice, huh?
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Rails Datetime Timezone
2.0.0p247 :001 > e = Event.new(start_date_time: DateTime.now, date_offset: 'GMT-4')
=> #<Event id: nil, start_date_time: "2013-11-01 13:03:31", date_offset: "GMT-4", created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>
2.0.0p247 :002 > e.start_date_time
=> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:03:31 BRST -02:00
2.0.0p247 :003 > d = DateTime.now
=> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:04:02 -0200
2.0.0p247 :004 > DateTime.new(d.year, d.month, d.day, d.hour, d.minute, d.second, e.date_offset)
=> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:04:02 -0400
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hlegius commented Nov 1, 2013

To Railers: I am NOT trying to change the default timezone. I must define date and timezone for my own. Each Event will have a datetime and a timezone.

My target here was save the date with timezone in the start_date_time attribute, instead of saving wrong timezone and do conversions on the fly everytime.

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