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

Here is what worked for me...

def convert_zones(to_zone)
   to_zone_time = to_zone.localtime
end


# have your time set as time

time = convert_zones(time)
time.strftime("%b #{day}, %Y (%a) #{hour}:%M %p %Z")