ruby get Time in given timezone

Question

In ruby, how can I get current time in a given timezone? I know the offset from UTC, and want to get the current time in the timezone with that offset.

Answer 1

For an UTC offset of x hours, the current time can be calculated with the help of ActiveSupport in Rails, as the others said:

utc_offset = -7
zone = ActiveSupport::TimeZone[utc_offset].name
Time.zone = zone 
Time.zone.now

or instead of the two lines

DateTime.now.in_time_zone(zone)

Or, if you do not have Rails, one can also use new_offset to convert a locate DateTime to another time zone

utc_offset = -7
local = DateTime.now
local.new_offset(Rational(utc_offset,24))