Help converting DateTime from UTC

[Geary Eppley]

I trying to convert a parsed time of "2005-12-01T18:00:00Z" to the local
equivalent.

I'm current in -800 (PST) and so and doing the following:
DateTime.parse("2005-12-01T18:00:00Z").new_offset(-8.0/24)

What I get is very close, but not what I would expect:
2005-12-01T09:59:59-0800

How do I get this to show 10:00:00? I don't really care about the
seconds, so if there is no easy solution, I'll have to write a method to
round to the nearest minute.

Thanks,
Geary

 

[Kirk Haines]

I trying to convert a parsed time of "2005-12-01T18:00:00Z" to the local
equivalent.

I'm current in -800 (PST) and so and doing the following:
DateTime.parse("2005-12-01T18:00:00Z").new_offset(-8.0/24)

What I get is very close, but not what I would expect:
2005-12-01T09:59:59-0800

DateTime.parse("2005-12-01T18:00:00Z").new_offset(Rational(-8,24))


Kirk Haines

 

[Park Heesob]

Hi,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geary Eppley" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 9:03 AM
Subject: Help converting DateTime from UTC

I trying to convert a parsed time of "2005-12-01T18:00:00Z" to the local
equivalent.

I'm current in -800 (PST) and so and doing the following:
DateTime.parse("2005-12-01T18:00:00Z").new_offset(-8.0/24)

What I get is very close, but not what I would expect:
2005-12-01T09:59:59-0800

How do I get this to show 10:00:00? I don't really care about the
seconds, so if there is no easy solution, I'll have to write a method to
round to the nearest minute.

Try
DateTime.parse("2005-12-01T18:00:00Z").new_offset(Rational(-8,24))

HTH,

Park Heesob

 

[Geary Eppley]

thanks. That did it.