Re: [Rails-devel] Default timezone

[Jim B. <jim...@ya...>]

Another comment re: ease-of-use in simply launching rails- re: my.properties for rails options, and java command-line options (whether buried in bat/sh files or not) - this approach can be very quickly complicated by environmental issues-

- the user's current-directory when rails is launched (eg, where rails is launched, with different users and tables), 

- user difficulty of indirect command associations to java/rails command lines throughout, vs normal windows/mac application preferences and etc

- running multiple rails versions on one machine- but wanting to maintain these preferences, once, across versions 

- and, finally, but most problematically- installs and upgrades:  this fixup needs to be done by the pbem novice, each and every time they download a new rails package/version.  (to get going properly in the first place, and then to upgrade later.) 

None of this is at all familiar to the novice- nor necessarily trivial, either.  

We should hope non-experts will be fine with Rails' defaults, as is; changing them gets very awkward, quickly, in practice.

On the other hand- on balance, is there a substantial benefit for Rails' current file-naming default, where all names are coined within the current user's timezone?   (Rather than simply GMT, for example.)  

best,
 - jim