[Rails-devel] Default timezone

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

I just found the following Bug Report in Sourceforge:

<quote>
New pbem players can usually download, launch, and use rails quickly- with
one major exception- setting up the user.timezone=UTC command-line option
for java.

This causes inordinate problems, where gamers who aren't computer experts
immediately confuse their bats with their jars, diagnose symptoms at length
in mail threads, get things right on one machine but wrong on another, cant
upgrade rails to the latest without starting the process all over again
(so, they don't), etc.

It seems that changing this default introduces an amount of new-user hassle
that is disproportionate.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure anyone but networked users really care what
timezone Rails invents filenames in.

So- is it possible Rails could just default to UTC timezones, or
timezone-independent filenames??

It would be a huge help- it's surprising what a problem this turns out to
be.
</quote>

Now there is an existing feature in my.properties to set the timezone:
save.filename.date_time_zone=UTC
Would using that property help out?

By default this property is outcommented, so local time applies.
Any opinions on setting UTC time on by default for saved file names?

Personally, I don't mind, because I always use my own version
of this property file (named my_my.properties).

Erik.