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? Thanks again for the help. jackster ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussion for TZInfo users" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [TZInfo-users] Using TZ to convert to EST > On 13/11/2007, John Sheahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks alot for pointing me in the right direction, Philip. >> Your explaination caused me to look hard at my Timezone.get statement and >> found that I was missing the _ between New and York. >> Once I fixed this, I am now getting time on my view, however, it is still in >> UTC. >> >> Here's my code that is giving me UTC: >> tz = TZInfo::Timezone.get('America/New_York') >> @local = tz.utc_to_local(tz.now) >> >> My service provider that my server is in is giving me Mountain Time, now >> that I have been able to change this to UTC, How can I change this to >> convert the UTC time to EST? > > tz.now will give you the current local time in the timezone - > internally it runs tz.utc_to_local(Time.now.utc). You don't need the > extra call to utc_to_local. > > Note that the local time returned will be described as UTC because > Ruby doesn't support arbitrary local timezones. The value of the time > will be the correct local time though. > > 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 _______________________________________________ TZInfo-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/tzinfo-users
