Converting Time in UTC to Pacific time

Question

I get a string from a external method with a time and date like so \"07/09/10 14:50\" is there any way I can convert that time in ruby to \'Pacific US\' time knowin

Answer 1

Since it appears you are using rails, you have quite a few options. I suggest reading this article that talks all about time zones.

To convert to PST, both of these are rails-specific methods. No need to re-invent the wheel:

time = Time.parse("07/09/10 14:50")
time.in_time_zone("Pacific Time (US & Canada)")

Hope this helps

UPDATE: rails might try to get smart and give the time you specify as a string a time zone. To ensure that the time parses as UTC, you should specify in the string:

time = Time.parse("07/09/10 14:50 UTC")
time.in_time_zone("Pacific Time (US & Canada)")