Change Time zone in pure ruby (not rails)

Question

I am building a Sinatra site which has mixed UTC/PST data sources, but will be viewed in PST. So I need a way to easily convert Time objects from UTC to PST. Without Rails, I d

Answer 1

I recently did the same thing on an iron.io worker which default time is UTC

# For generality/testing, only require what you need. 
require 'active_support/all'  

# Set the Timezone 
Time.zone = "Asia/Hong_Kong" 

t = Time.zone.now
#=> 2015-01-20 16:44:58 +0800

For info on the supported Timezones take a look at ActiveSupport http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeZone.html