No support for different countries/contexts. about business_time HOT 3 CLOSED

Thats out of scope for this gem. Much like Rails (which frankly, is where I use this gem most of the time), the server is set to one time zone and stays that way.

Supporting multiple time zones is tricky... far trickier than you realize unless you've done it before on several apps... trickier still if users in different time zones need to see the same data and somehow agree on dates and times. I've written apps used across many countries for the U.S. State Department, and I get dizzy every time we have to deal with date logic. Its gets all the more complicated because the clients never appreciate the complexities and end up specifying half-baked requirements around reporting periods, etc.

For something that will help you in this quest, check out my other gem, tz_magic.

https://github.com/bokmann/tz_magic

for a rails app, it gives you a reasonable way to figure out the timezone setting of the end user's browser.

I have considered writing a book on the subject of distributed apps and time zone support, but its a monumental effort, and that's not the topic I want to be famous for...

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Sounds good!

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Hey, @Nitrodist! We just released a gem called biz that supports multiple schedule configurations. Check out the documentation and feel free to shoot me an email or open an issue if you have any questions.

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