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Coderama
Coderama

Reputation: 11352

Display UTC based on known timezone

If I know the Time.zone e.g. London, any ideas on how I can display

(GMT+00:00) London

without assigning

Time.zone = "London"

and then calling

puts Time.zone

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 171

Answers (2)

Douglas F Shearer
Douglas F Shearer

Reputation: 26488

The to_s method provides exactly this output.

Time.zone.to_s
# => "(GMT+00:00) London"

Upvotes: 0

Mike Lewis
Mike Lewis

Reputation: 64137

You can call:

Time.zone.formatted_offset

Which will:

returns the offset of this time zone as a formatted string, of the format “+HH:MM”.

per: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeZone.html#method-i-formatted_offset

So if you wanted to format the string, you could do:

"GMT(#{Time.zone.formatted_offset})"

Upvotes: 1

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