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

require 'time'

If you want pacific time just subtract 25200 seconds from Time.new There is a 7 hour difference between pacific time and GMT.

t = Time.parse((Time.new-25200).to_s)

Then use strftime to format however you want it to look.

puts t.strftime("%A %D at %I:%M%p")