[TZInfo-users] Time zone

[Philip Ross]

Jesper Andersen wrote:
> I seem to have some problem with this timezone. The problem is that any 
> time, no matter what timezone is reported to be UTC time. The times are 
> correct, just the timezone information returned with the time is wrong.
> Below are some examples. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

You're not doing anything wrong - this is the intended behaviour at 
present. I haven't yet been able to find a way to construct a Ruby Time 
with a specific timezone. Time can either represent times in the local 
timezone of the machine/environment or in UTC. As a result, TZInfo 
always constructs Times in UTC and ignores the timezone of any instances 
passed in.

There's a tracker item for this issue:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=4134&group_id=894&atid=3528

If you want to get hold of the abbreviation for the time, you can use 
the period_for_utc method:

c = Timezone.get 'Europe/Copenhagen'
=> Europe - Copenhagen
c.period_for_utc(Time.now.utc).abbreviation
=> :CEST

-- 
Philip Ross
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/ -- DST-aware timezone library for Ruby