From: Park Heesob <phasis68@...>
Date: 2005-12-04T09:42:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Help converting DateTime from UTC

Hi,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geary Eppley" <gearye+rubyforum@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 9:03 AM
Subject: Help converting DateTime from UTC


>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
>
> How do I get this to show 10:00:00? I don't really care about the
> seconds, so if there is no easy solution, I'll have to write a method to
> round to the nearest minute.
>

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

HTH,

Park Heesob