Why does Heroku log using the server time rather than the Rails time zone?

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UPDATE: Ok, I didn't formulate a good Q to be answered. I still struggle with heroku being on -07:00 UTC and I at +02:00 UTC. Q: How do I get the log written in the correct Time.zone ? The 9 hours difference, heroku (us west) - norway, is distracting to work with. I get this in my production.log (using `heroku logs`): Processing ProductionController#create to xml (for 81.26.51.35 at 2010-04-28 23:00:12) [POST] How do I get it to write `2010-04-29 08:00:12 +02:00 GMT` ? Note that I'm running at heroku and cannot set the server time myself, as one could do at your amazon EC2 servers. Below is my previous question, I'll leave it be as it holds some interesting information about time and zones. Why does `Time.now` yield the server local time when I have set the another time zone in my `environment.rb` ``` config.time_zone = 'Copenhagen' ``` I've put this in a view ```

Time.zone <%= Time.zone %>

Time.now <%= Time.now %>

Time.now.utc <%= Time.now.utc %>

Time.z…

Accepted Answer

After some further investigation into my own Heroku timezone problems, I found a post which indicates that you actually can specify the timezone at an application level, using the following command:

```
heroku config:add TZ=Europe/Oslo
```

I believe this may be the answer to all your troubles. Courtesy of http://www.reality.hk/articles/2010/01/07/1319/ (Edit: Broken link as of 2012.08.23. Archived copy.)

Why does Heroku log using the server time rather than the Rails time zone?

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