There's got to be an easier way...
I am building an event manager and as part of it, the user selects the
time zone of the event from a drop-down list using the
time_zone_select helper. This is stored in the events table as a
string.
Because of legacy data which is stored in UTC, I want to keep the
dates and times in the table as UTC but when I display it, I want to
show the abbreviated version of the time zone value as selected.
For example, if the user created an event that starts on: 2009-05-01
10:30:00 UTC
and they chose the time zone: "Mountain Time (US & Canada)"
I want to be able to display it as: May 1st, 2009, 10:30 AM (MST)
What I'm stuck with is: how to easily convert:
"Mountain Time (US & Canada)" => "MST"
Shouldn't there be an easy mapping somewhere? Given that I have the
full time zone as a string, I need to pass it into a data structure or
object and then get the abbreviation. So far, the best I've found is
(where myevent.time_zone is the full time zone string):
ActiveSupport::TimeZone::ZONES.find{|z| z.name ==
myevent.time_zone}.tzinfo.current_period.abbreviation.to_s
This returns "MST". But there's gotta be a better way, right? (I just
can't seem to find one)
Anyone?
-Danimal
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