Convert UTC to local time in Rails 3

Question

I\'m having trouble converting a UTC Time or TimeWithZone to local time in Rails 3.

Say moment is some Time varia

Answer 1

Rails has its own names. See them with:

rake time:zones:us

You can also run rake time:zones:all for all time zones. To see more zone-related rake tasks: rake -D time

So, to convert to EST, catering for DST automatically:

Time.now.in_time_zone("Eastern Time (US & Canada)")