From: Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>
Date: 2010-08-21T01:34:11+09:00
Subject: Dealing with dates & timezones

Hey all,

I was wondering if I could ask for some advice regarding dates. I have a
file that contains lots of date values formatted like so:

Sunday, 15 August 2010 05:46:50 o'clock BST

I want basically out these dates as follows, applying the necessary time
zone bias:

15/08/2010 06:46:50 (because it is BST we add the hour)

At present I am struggling a little to achieve this, in particular the
tim zone offset. At present I have the following code:

dateparts = ParseDate.parsedate("#{myDate}")
myDate =
Time.mktime("#{dateparts[0]}","#{dateparts[1]}","#{dateparts[2]}","#{dateparts[3]}","#{dateparts[4]}","#{dateparts[5]}")
      myDate = myDate.strftime("%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S")

I am unsure, how to get from this code above to apply the relevant time
zone bias to the time as shown in the example below. My code at present
will output:

15/08/2010 05:46:50

This is not what I want because it does not understand this is a BST
time and it needs to be added by 1 hour.

I would appreciate any help.
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