Getting local time
I've got this time stored as a string:
2010-07-25 04:16:25
This is the GMT time for some action I took.
Since I live in the Jerusalem time zone, I would like to show it at Jerusalem time, i.e. 07:16 in the morning, not the GMT time of 04:16:25 which is 3 hours before.
How do I properly convert it programmatically with Ruby on Rails? I seem to get lost with the multitude of timezone functions and considerations I need to take when serving users from different locations.
I tried: Time.parse("2010-07-25 04:16:25") a开发者_高级运维nd it gave me: "Sun Jul 25 04:16:25 +0300 2010".
I suppose the "+0300" is the difference to where I'm at?
Some light on this, or even a link to a good article that doesn't assume you know much, would help.
You can define your timezone in environment.rb file (if you are using Rails 2.3.*) or application.rb (if you're using Rails 3).
Just look for section about time zones and everything is explained in comment. It will say something like this (this is from Rails 3):
# Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone.
# Run "rake -D time" for a list of tasks for finding time zone names. Default is UTC.
# config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'
Just uncomment that last line and you should be fine.
To configure it easily related to your system local zone you can add this in your application.rb
config.time_zone = Time.now.zone
and you can use something like this to get the localtime
Post.created_at.localtime
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