CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-railsruby-on-rails-4timezone
iamtoc
iamtoc

Reputation: 1709

Timezone in numeric values?

From this API, it's asking for a timezone in a negative of positive value. What does this mean and how would I produce it in Rails 4?

tz  Time zone as negative of positive values. Ex: 6.5

From looking through the Ruby Time API, I can't seem to make sense of where to look exactly. Any help would be awesome!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 299

Answers (1)

Mike Szyndel
Mike Szyndel

Reputation: 10592

What you need is gmt_offset method, it returns difference between GMT and selected time zone (time object) in seconds. Just divide it by 3600 and there you go

Example

t = Time.gm(2000,1,1,20,15,1)   #=> 2000-01-01 20:15:01 UTC
t.gmt_offset                    #=> 0
l = t.getlocal                  #=> 2000-01-01 14:15:01 -0600
l.gmt_offset                    #=> -21600

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions