On 13/11/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Philip, > > I am getting the local time but can't seem to get the time to be displayed in > EST. > > I'm sorry I don't understand.....How should I change my code to convert to > EST?
I'm assuming that you are now seeing a time displayed that is correct for EST, but the formatted string is indicating that it is UTC. If you want to stop it saying UTC, then you will need to format the time yourself. There are several options to do this: 1) Use the Ruby on Rails to_formatted_s function on the Time object (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToDefineYourOwnDateFormat). 2) Use the strftime function of the returned Time object (http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000297). If you use %Z in the format string though, this will probably output UTC. 3) Use the TZInfo::Timezone.strftime function (http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/doc/classes/TZInfo/Timezone.html#M000058). This takes a time in UTC, converts it to local time and formats it using the same options as the Time strftime function. However, %Z will be translated to the correct abbreviation for the Timezone (i.e. EST or EDT for New York). Regards, Phil -- Phil Ross http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ -- DST-aware timezone library for Ruby _______________________________________________ TZInfo-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/tzinfo-users
