From: "bcparanj@..." <bcparanj@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T17:41:24+09:00
Subject: DateTime in UTC

How do I extract the hour and minutes in UTC from a DateTime object? I
have looked at the Ruby cookbook and Ruby Way with no luck.

When I try:

>> d = DateTime.new(2008,8, 20, 12, 15)
=> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:15:00 +0000
>> d.zone
=> "+00:00"
>> d.min
=> 15
>> d.hour
=> 12

The result is not the same as executing the following javascript:

// Converts the given time into UTC, returns this in a string
function getUTCDateString(y,m,d,h,min) {
  var timeObj = new Date(y,m-1,d,h,min);
  var dateStr = "" + timeObj.getUTCFullYear();
  dateStr += stringPad(timeObj.getUTCMonth()+1);
  dateStr += stringPad(timeObj.getUTCDate());
  dateStr += "T" + stringPad(timeObj.getUTCHours());
  dateStr += stringPad(timeObj.getUTCMinutes()) + "00Z";
  return dateStr;
}

TIA.