Ruby Time Utc

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.

Ruby time utc. Ruby time utc function last updated. 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. The output for this method is in seconds but you can divide by 3600 to get it in hours.

Utc is a time class method which returns the conversion of time to utc gmt modifying the receiver. Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default. T time now t zone cet t utc offset 3600 1 you can also get the current time in utc. Time is an abstraction of dates and times.

An optional argument the offset indicates the difference between the local time and utc. 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. Time now utc ruby time formatting.