is there a way to set to timezone capybara webkit runs in?

[Drew Batshaw]

I have been running into issue with my tests where I need to check a date displayed to the user which is always displayed in their local time zone.  Since the time is stored in UTC on the rails side the tests will periodically fail.  Is there a way to have capybara webkit run is a specific timezone?  For now I have resorted to doing script_evaluate("moment(#{date}") to get the date in the browsers local time but that is not very clean.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[Joe Ferris]

Hey Drew,

I looked into this quickly and didn't see a way that we could do it. If you're on Linux, you can try setting the TZ environment variable to UTC; I haven't tried this myself.

-Joe

[Drew Batshaw]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I will try that.

[Drew Batshaw]

I tried putting ENV['TZ'] = 'UTC' in spec_helper.rb but it didn't seem to do the job (although it definitely does when I try it in the console).

[Łukasz Bandzarewicz]

Actually it works for me. I was running integration specs for testing parsing time with moment.js and I found this issue.

On the build server I had UTC timezone. Putting ENV['TZ'] = 'UTC' in my spec_helper.rb forced the same timezone on my local machine.