From: Michael McDaniel <ruby@...>
Date: 2002-03-31T17:48:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Timezone name -> UTC hour offset?

Sean Chittenden wrote:

> Is there any way of going from -0800 to (PST|PDT) ?  Is there a module
> that does this?  -sc
> 
The simple case of adding 8 hours to time is (assuming you wanted to check 
that time was utc, and you want to convert to PST)

if time.gmt?
  t2 = time + 28800
end

(8 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds = 28800)


~mmm