From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2005-12-04T09:42:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Help converting DateTime from UTC

On Saturday 03 December 2005 5:03 pm, Geary Eppley wrote:
> I trying to convert a parsed time of "2005-12-01T18:00:00Z" to the local
> equivalent.
>
> I'm current in -800 (PST) and so and doing the following:
>  DateTime.parse("2005-12-01T18:00:00Z").new_offset(-8.0/24)
>
> What I get is very close, but not what I would expect:
>  2005-12-01T09:59:59-0800

DateTime.parse("2005-12-01T18:00:00Z").new_offset(Rational(-8,24))


Kirk Haines