title: Rails 4 - How to properly display times across timezones?
body: <p>I am working on an application where users create events. For every event, I use a countdown - so on the page is shown how much time (hours, minutes and seconds) left to the beginning of the event.</p>
  
  <p>I am in the Netherlands (+1h), so when I create an event and set its start on March 29th, 19:45 and then look to the database, I see there following (the column is <code>datetime</code>):</p>
  
  <pre><code>2015-03-29 19:45:00
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I load the page, it shows that the event will start always in 1 more hour. How to handle this behavior?</p>
  
  <p>Also, I wanted to ask one more thing - let's say I set start of an event on 19:45h. How to ensure that someone browsing my website in California (that's 9 hours behind the Netherlands) will see the proper time (this person should see beginning of the event on 10:45 and not 19:45).</p>
  
  <p>Thank you, I haven't been doing some serious work with time/zones.</p>
  
  <p>PS: the server I use for the app is located in Amsterdam (a DigitalOcean server).</p>