How do I change the zone offset for a time in Ruby on Rails?

Question

I have a variable foo that contains a time, lets say 4pm today, but the zone offset is wrong, i.e. it is in the wrong time zone. How do I change the time zone?

When

Answer 1

You can do:

DateTime.parse('Fri Jun 26 07:00:00 UTC 2009').change(offset: '-0400')

Which returns:

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0400