From: Glenn Jackman <glennj@...>
Date: 2009-09-17T03:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: import utc in Time

At 2009-09-16 12:12PM, "Luca Roma" wrote:
>  Hi, i'm using facebooker for receiving facebook's events.
>  I receive the time of the event in utc format.
>  
>  how can i import it in a Time object
>  
>  in other words
>  
>  a= Time.now.utc
>  
>  how can i import a in a Time object??
>  
>  this not works
>  Time.parse(a)

The ActiveSupport gem has a time zone class:

    require 'active_support'

    utc = Time.now.utc
    # => Wed Sep 16 17:28:58 UTC 2009
    utc.class
    # => Time

    zone = ActiveSupport::TimeZone['Eastern Time (US & Canada)']

    eastern = zone.at(utc.to_f)
    # => Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:28:58 EDT -04:00
    eastern.class
    # => ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone

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