From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T02:01:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Date Class and GMT

Thank you very much Mark!

Zach

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J. Reed [mailto:markjreed@mail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:47 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Date Class and GMT


On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:39:45PM +0000, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:31:08AM +0900, Zach Dennis wrote:
> > I need to be able to return the zone by it's numeric representation(
> > i.e. -0500 ). Like

Oh, it turns out that instead of using DateTime, you can just use the %z 
specifier to strftime.

irb(main):001:0> n=Time.now
=> Wed Nov 26 11:41:51 EST 2003
irb(main):002:0> n.zone
=> "EST"
irb(main):003:0> n.strftime("%Z")
=> "EST"
irb(main):004:0> n.strftime("%z")
=> "-0500"
irb(main):005:0> n.strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y")
=> "Wed Nov 26 11:41:51 -0500 2003"

-Mark