Getting the timezone (the GMT offset) from DateTime

Rails
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Hi everyone!

How do you get the timezone (in the format: +0800) from a time object?

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Thank you,

Ramon T.

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%z will do the job, but…
are you sure you are doing timezone related stuff in a right way?
usually it is better to store your times in UTC timezone, converting
back and forth to user’s, user location’s or whatever entity’s you’ll
find appropriate local timezone.

On Jun 16, 9:38 am, “Ramon Miguel M. Tayag” [email protected]

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%z gives me “Malay Standard Pacific Time” (or something like that). I
figured it’d be much easier to make a timezone drop down (just like
all the other sites out there).

“are you sure you are doing timezone related stuff in a right way?”
– Not at all :o

Thanks :slight_smile:

On 6/16/07, liquidautumn [email protected] wrote:

–
Ramon T.

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Try Time.new.localtime.strftime “%z” ?

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Thanks, kates, will do :slight_smile:

On 6/23/07, kates [email protected] wrote:

Try Time.new.localtime.strftime “%z” ?

–
Ramon T.