On Nov 4, 5:32 pm, MR Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to change a date from a time zone to UTC.
>
> First I set the time zone and then get its offset from UTC.
>
> Then I am trying to change the time zone of my date by substracting the
> offset but it failed.
>
> ---------------
> Time.zone = @time_zone # 'Paris'
> @offset = Time.zone.utc_offset() # @offset = 3600
>
> # @date = now
> @date = @date - @offset
>
> # @date should be now - 1 but its somewhere in 1998 ...
> ---------------
>
> Reading the pick axe Time documentation, when you substract something
> from a date, it should be in seconds, which is the case. But with my
> code, it failed.
>
Are you sure your date is an instance of Time and not an instance of
Date? (for Date - 1 means -1 day so -3600 would be about 10 years ie
somewhere in 1998).
Fred
> What can I do to fix that ?
> --
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