Merge pull request #279 from Dynamoid/change-default-application-time…

…zone-to-utc

Change default time zone to UTC

README.md

@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ Listed below are all configuration options.
 * `convert_big_decimal` - if `true` then Dynamoid converts numbers stored in `Hash` in `raw` field to float. Default is `false`
 * `models_dir` - `dynamoid:create_tables` rake task loads DynamoDb models from this directory. Default is `./app/models`.
 * `application_timezone` - Dynamoid converts all `datetime` fields to specified time zone when loads data from the storage.
-  Acceptable values - `utc`, `local` (to use system time zone) and time zone name e.g. `Eastern Time (US & Canada)`. Default is `local`
+  Acceptable values - `utc`, `local` (to use system time zone) and time zone name e.g. `Eastern Time (US & Canada)`. Default is `utc`
 * `store_datetime_as_string` - if `true` then Dynamoid stores :datetime fields in ISO 8601 string format. Default is `false`
 * `store_date_as_string` - if `true` then Dynamoid stores :date fields in ISO 8601 string format. Default is `false`
 * `backoff` - is a hash: key is a backoff strategy (symbol), value is parameters for the strategy. Is used in batch operations. Default id `nil`

lib/dynamoid/config.rb

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ module Config
     option :sync_retry_wait_seconds, default: 2
     option :convert_big_decimal, default: false
     option :models_dir, default: './app/models' # perhaps you keep your dynamoid models in a different directory?
-    option :application_timezone, default: :local # available values - :utc, :local, time zone names
+    option :application_timezone, default: :utc # available values - :utc, :local, time zone name like "Hawaii"
     option :store_datetime_as_string, default: false # store Time fields in ISO 8601 string format
     option :store_date_as_string, default: false # store Date fields in ISO 8601 string format
     option :backoff, default: nil # callable object to handle exceeding of table throughput limit