From: Remco van 't Veer <rwvtveer@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T23:40:55+09:00
Subject: Re: change default timezone

On 11/8/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Remco van 't Veer wrote:
>
> > I am running a ruby web-application on a server in a different timezone and
> > I would like to force it into thinking it's in my timezone (and do the
> > proper adjustments).  I thought about reopening the Time class and redefine
> > some member but can't figure out which to change.  Maybe there's some other
> > way?  The application is hosted on debian linux.
>
> this might get you going:
>
>    harp:~ > cat a.rb
>    t = Time::now
>    p t
>
>    ENV["TZ"] = "PST+8"
>    t = Time::now
>    p t
>
>    harp:~ > ruby a.rb
>    Tue Nov 08 07:26:05 MST 2005
>    Tue Nov 08 06:26:05 PST 2005

That's too obvious!  ;)  Thanks.

Remco