How to set the time zone for Heroku

Question

I wrote a Node.js server to run on Heroku (Global). Everything works fine in my localhost, but since the Heroku time zone is UTC, my function is now working incorrectly. Can someone help me set the default timezone?

Here is my code:

router.get('/year/:yyear/:mmonth/:ddate/:hhours/:mminute/:sseconds/:fireTitle/:fireBody', function(req, res) {

      var year1 = req.params.yyear;
      var month1 = (req.params.mmonth)-1;
      var date1 = req.params.ddate;
      var hours1 = req.params.hhours;
      var minute1 = (req.params.mminute);
      var seconds1 = req.params.sseconds;


      var datetime = new Date((new Date)*1 - 1000*3600*5.5 );


      var responseObject= "Your Function has been set for : "+year1+month1+date1+hours1+minute1+seconds1 +" date "+ datetime;

      var cron = require('node-schedule');
      var date = new Date(year1, month1, date1, hours1, minute1, seconds1);

      cron.scheduleJob(date, function(){

        var request = require("request");

      request("This Function will run" , function(error, response, body) {
        console.log(body);
      });
      });

      res.send(responseObject);

});


module.exports = router;

Answer 1

You can do something similar for your application in heroku

heroku config:add TZ="America/Los_Angeles"

http://blog.pardner.com/2012/08/setting-the-default-time-zone-for-a-heroku-app/