Ruby Time Utc

T time now t zone cet t utc offset 3600 1 you can also get the current time in utc.

Ruby time utc.

The output for this method is in seconds but you can divide by 3600 to get it in hours. The offset should be 1 to 1 and its precision is assumed at most second. For example rational 3 24 represents ahead of 3 hours of utc rational 5 24 represents behind of 5 hours of utc. Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default.

Time is stored internally as the number of seconds with fraction since the epoch january 1 1970 00 00 utc also see the library module date. Utc is a time class method which returns the conversion of time to utc gmt modifying the receiver. An optional argument the offset indicates the difference between the local time and utc. Time now utc ruby time formatting.

Usr bin ruby w time time new values time to a p values this will generate the following result 26 10 12 2 6 2008 1 154 false mst this array could be passed to time utc or time local functions to get different format of dates as follows. If you want the time zone offset you can use the utc offset method. The time class treats gmt greenwich mean time and utc coordinated universal time as equivalent gmt is the older way of referring to these baseline times but persists in the names of calls on posix systems.