From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-04-01T06:32:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Timezone name -> UTC hour offset?

> > 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)

Thanks for the idea!  It ain't pretty, but this works pretty well for
converting timezones (ex: "-0800", "-0730", etc...).

@date = @date + (("-0730".to_i.abs.divmod(100)[0] * 3600) +
                 ("-0730".to_i.abs.divmod(100)[1] * 60))

Is there any way to increment a time object without creating a new
object?  Something like a +! or t.add_s!(sec) operator?  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden