I have a list of locations and a boolean that tells me if the location observes day light savings. Each location is identified by a GMT offset for its time zone.
I need to check if each time zone is currently within day light savings or not. I know I could simply check my local time using Time.now.dst?, but that won't help on the day of the day light savings switch. For instance, if it's 2:00AM on the east coast on the day of DST "jump ahead" it becomes 3:00AM (and the time zone changes from -5 to -4), then it's still 11PM on the west coast. The west coast doesn't change to -7 from -8 until 2AM within their local time. This means it's 6:00AM on the east coast when the west coast finally switches to DST, jumping from 2AM to 3AM hours later than the west coast. Although this is simply a several hour gap where a bug could occur it has to be handled. Ruby's Time and DateTime etc are not easy to deal with. I've been trying to use tzinfo, but I can't find the correct methods. I think I'm just not finding the correct documentation because a lot of time/date libraries use a vocabulary that's not always familiar to everyone. Is what I'm trying to do possible with the current Ruby libraries or do I need tzinfo? Does anyone know of a way to create a Time/DateTime object for a location/time zone so I can simply use Time.dst? ? Also, I'd really like to be able to use the offset integer -4...-8 (and others, limited to US now, but could be necessary internationally) rather than using the time zone names "America/New_York" since I don't have the offsets mapped to names. Ideas anyone? Thanks, John
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