title: Rails/Activerecord database field timezone
body: <p>I have a database that is written to by a non-rails application and read from by a rails application. There is a datetime field in the database and the data stored in this field is stored in Eastern Time. In my rails app, I understand I can set the application's timezone in my environment.rb file by doing <code>config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)'</code>. However, rails assumes the data stored in the database is stored in UTC and converts from config.time_zone to UTC as it pulls information in and out of the database. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to tell rails the data in this particular field, or even all my datetime fields, is Eastern Time and not UTC?</p>