Hopefully fixing time issue on Heroku.

app/models/event.rb

@@ -8,17 +8,17 @@ class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
   attr_accessible :description, :end_date, :end_time, :name, :start_date, :start_time, :as => :default
   attr_accessible :created_at, :creator_id, :description, :end_date, :end_time, :id, :name, :start_date, :start_time, :updated_at, :as => :admin
 
-  scope :active, :conditions => ["events.end_date > ? AND events.start_date <= ?", Time.zone.now, Time.zone.now]
+  scope :active, :conditions => ["events.end_date > ? AND events.start_date <= ?", Time.now, Time.now]
   scope :current, :conditions => "events.end_date >= (SELECT date('now'))", :order => "events.end_date ASC"
 
   validates :name, :format => {:with => /^[\x20-\x7E]+$/}, :length => {:within => 2..254}, :presence => true
   validates :description, :format => {:with => /^[\x20-\x7E]*$/}, :length => {:within => 0..254}
   validates :start_datetime, :date => {:before => :end_datetime}
-  validates :start_datetime, :date => {:after => (Time.zone.now - 5.minutes)}, :on => :create
+  validates :start_datetime, :date => {:after => (Time.now - 5.minutes)}, :on => :create
   validates :end_datetime, :date => {:after => :start_datetime}
 
   def active?
-    now = Time.zone.now
+    now = Time.now
     self.end_datetime > now && self.start_datetime <= now
   end
 
@@ -41,30 +41,30 @@ def start_date
   end
 
   def start_date=(value)
-    self.start_datetime = Time.zone.parse("#{value} #{self.start_datetime.localtime.strftime('%I:%M %p') if self.start_datetime}")
+    self.start_datetime = Time.parse("#{value} #{self.start_datetime.localtime.strftime('%I:%M %p') if self.start_datetime}")
   end
 
   def start_time
     self.start_datetime.localtime.strftime('%I:%M %p') if self.start_datetime
   end
 
   def start_time=(value)
-    self.start_datetime = Time.zone.parse("#{self.start_datetime ? self.start_datetime.localtime.to_date.to_s : Time.now.to_date.to_s} #{value}")
+    self.start_datetime = Time.parse("#{self.start_datetime ? self.start_datetime.localtime.to_date.to_s : Time.now.to_date.to_s} #{value}")
   end
 
   def end_date
     self.end_datetime.localtime.to_date if self.end_datetime
   end
 
   def end_date=(value)
-    self.end_datetime = Time.zone.parse("#{value} #{self.end_datetime.localtime.strftime('%I:%M %p') if self.end_datetime}")
+    self.end_datetime = Time.parse("#{value} #{self.end_datetime.localtime.strftime('%I:%M %p') if self.end_datetime}")
   end
 
   def end_time
     self.end_datetime.localtime.strftime('%I:%M %p') if self.end_datetime
   end
 
   def end_time=(value)
-    self.end_datetime = Time.zone.parse("#{self.end_datetime ? self.end_datetime.localtime.to_date.to_s : Time.now.to_date.to_s} #{value}")
+    self.end_datetime = Time.parse("#{self.end_datetime ? self.end_datetime.localtime.to_date.to_s : Time.now.to_date.to_s} #{value}")
   end
 end