From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-10-16T20:53:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this an executable code?

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Kaye Ng <sbstn26@yahoo.com> wrote:
> One more thing.
> I typed this in IRB:
>
> epoch_time = Time.gm(2007, 5).to_i
> t = Time.at(epoch_time)
>
> The second code returned:
> 2007-05-01 08:00:00 +0800
>
> Can anybody tell me why the "hour" value is 8?
> I thought the default value for "hour" would be zeroes, as in this code:
> Time.local(2010)
> => 2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0800

The +0800 at the end of the output is a good clue. Time.at interprets
the given seconds as local time, and you are 8 hours ahead of GMT.

Regards,
Ammar