Getting the timezone (the GMT offset) from DateTime

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Hi everyone!

How do you get the timezone (in the format: +0800) from a time object?

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Thank you,

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%z will do the job, but... are you sure you are doing timezone related stuff in a right way? usually it is better to store your times in UTC timezone, converting back and forth to user's, user location's or whatever entity's you'll find appropriate local timezone.

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%z gives me "Malay Standard Pacific Time" (or something like that). I figured it'd be much easier to make a timezone drop down (just like all the other sites out there).

"are you sure you are doing timezone related stuff in a right way?" -- Not at all :o

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Try Time.new.localtime.strftime "%z" ?

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Thanks, kates, will do :slight_smile: