From: zunda <zunda616e@...>
Date: 2004-12-01T14:30:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Timezone Adjustment?

Hi,

> "displaying" 
> the date/time from a database and justing it for the a users local 
> timezone in a web application.
> 
> Is there a simple way of doing this?

What I have been doing is to play with the environment variable TZ:

  t = Time.now
  ENV['TZ'] = 'HST'
  puts t.localtime  #=> Tue Nov 30 19:25:55 HST 2004
  ENV['TZ'] = 'Japan'
  u = Time.at( t )  
  puts t.localtime  #=> Tue Nov 30 19:25:55 HST 2004
  puts u.localtime  #=> Wed Dec 01 14:25:55 JST 2004

It seems that we have to create a new Time object to change timezone.
I also like to know more sofisticated ways to do this.

Thanks,
zunda

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