From: Mike Shock <mshock@...>
Date: 2007-02-10T16:52:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Time in specified timezone/offset

Good time-of-the-day! ;-)

Probably you need a DateTime object, which can be constructed (as 'ri 
DateTime' says) like this:
date_time = DateTime.new(year, month, day, hour, min, sec, offset)
where offset is given in fractions of day: e.g. 5/24.0 for an offset of 
+5 hours from UTC or GMT.

Here's a sample:

require 'date'
t1 = DateTime.new(2007, 2, 10, 12, 38, 10, 5/24.0)
printf "%s %s %s\n", t1, t1.offset.to_s, t1.zone # 
2007-02-10T12:38:10+0500 0.208 +0500

Cheers -
Mike Shock

hemant wrote:
> I have got following method in my code:
>
>
>  def to_time
>     if time? then
>     Time.mktime(year,month,day_of_month,hour,minute,second,usec)
>     else
>     Time.mktime(year,month,day_of_month)
>     end
>  end
>
> In my class, I also have timezone/utc offset as an attribute and above
> method basically returns a Time object based on those attributes.
>
> But as you can see, Time.mktime is going to convert that time to local
> zone and return that value. So, is there anyway to get a Time object
> by passing above said attributes and timezone/offset in timezone
> specified. That is, no automatic conversion to utc or local zone.
>
>
>