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Reputation: 1837

Ruby Time doesn't keep offset when parsed

puts "date --- #{date}"
@date = Time.parse(date.to_s).iso8601 unless date.nil?
puts "@date -- #{@date}"

Outputs

Date --- 2012-08-12T12:15:17-07:00
@Date -- 2012-08-12T19:15:17+00:00

Anyone know why?

Additionally, this happens with strptime

Time.strptime("2012-08-12T12:05:08-07:00", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%:z")
=> 2012-08-12 19:05:08 +0000

Upvotes: 0

Views: 418

Answers (1)

Darshan Rivka Whittle
Darshan Rivka Whittle

Reputation: 34031

It appears that your system is set to UTC. Time.parse() creates a new Time object, which uses the system timezone, and sets it to the time that is parsed. It doesn't change the timezone of the new Time to match the timezone of the parsed date. If you really want that behavior, you can use something like:

DateTime.parse(date.to_s).new_offset(date.iso8601[-6,6]).iso8601

Update: Regarding the strptime() part of the question that was just added, it's the exact same concept. A new Time is being created with the default timezone, with a time that matches the date that you're parsing.

Upvotes: 1

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