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Rails: local workstation parses time differently than server

Have some code to parse a string w/ time zone:

Time.strptime("5/28/19 14:26:36 Eastern Time (US & Canada)", '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S %Z')

The weird thing is that on my local machine, the result is: 2019-05-28 14:26:36 -0600.

However when I run the same line on my Heroku staging server, the result is 2019-05-28 14:26:36 +0000.

Perhaps there is some system/Rails time zone configuration that differs between the two environments, but I would expect them to parse the same string correctly.

Using the same version of Ruby, Rails, and all gems on both environments.

Any thoughts?

Solution

  • You should be using Time.zone.strptime to take the timezone into consideration like

    Time.zone.strptime("5/28/19 14:26:36 Eastern Time (US & Canada)", '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S %Z')