Strptime with Timezone

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Nicolas picture Nicolas · Oct 26, 2011 · Viewed 19.1k times · Source

I have a String which I parse with DateTime.strptime. The Timezone of the Date in the String is CET but Ruby creates an UTC DateTime object which of course has an offset of 2hrs.

Currently I'm working around the issue with DateTime.strptime().change(:offset => "+0020") but I'm pretty sure this is not the way it's meant to work.

Can someone enlighten me on the correct way to do this?

Answer

WarHog picture WarHog · Oct 26, 2011

I use it the following way:

ruby-1.9.2-head :001 > require 'date'
 => true 
ruby-1.9.2-head :002 > fmt = "%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S %Z"
 => "%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S %Z" 
ruby-1.9.2-head :003 > DateTime.strptime "10-26-2011 10:16:29 CET", fmt
 => #<DateTime: 2011-10-26T10:16:29+01:00 (212186380589/86400,1/24,2299161)> 
ruby-1.9.2-head :004 > DateTime.strptime "10-26-2011 10:16:29 UTC", fmt
 => #<DateTime: 2011-10-26T10:16:29+00:00 (212186384189/86400,0/1,2299161)> 
ruby-1.9.2-head :005 > DateTime.strptime "10-26-2011 10:16:29 PST", fmt
 => #<DateTime: 2011-10-26T10:16:29-08:00 (212186412989/86400,-1/3,2299161)>

Is it what you mean?

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