From: Arlen Cuss <ar@...>
Date: 2012-12-10T15:01:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.new(2001, 12, 3).to_i returns wrong value

Time internally stores the value in UTC, as does #to_i properly return the seconds since the epoch; the issue here is in your construction of it: the default is to use your local timezone.

I'm in +11, hence:

> > Time.new(2001, 12, 3)
=> 2001-12-03 00:00:00 +1100
> > Time.new(2001, 12, 3).to_i
> 

=> 1007298000
> > Time.new(2001, 12, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0)
> 

=> 2001-12-03 00:00:00 +0000
> > Time.new(2001, 12, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0).to_i
> 

=> 1007337600



On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 2:10 AM, Robert Buck wrote:

> I basically subtracted the timezone offset for Time.new from my C code
> and that fixed it all regardless of what default timezone is set.
> 
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.