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_timezoneUsage
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
jsTimezoneDetectstrategy - 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