Class | ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone |
In: |
lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
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Parent: | Object |
A Time-like class that can represent a time in any time zone. Necessary because standard Ruby Time instances are limited to UTC and the system‘s ENV[‘TZ’] zone.
You shouldn‘t ever need to create a TimeWithZone instance directly via new — instead, Rails provides the methods local, parse, at and now on TimeZone instances, and in_time_zone on Time and DateTime instances, for a more user-friendly syntax. Examples:
Time.zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' # => 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' Time.zone.local(2007, 2, 10, 15, 30, 45) # => Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:30:45 EST -05:00 Time.zone.parse('2007-02-01 15:30:45') # => Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:30:45 EST -05:00 Time.zone.at(1170361845) # => Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:30:45 EST -05:00 Time.zone.now # => Sun, 18 May 2008 13:07:55 EDT -04:00 Time.utc(2007, 2, 10, 20, 30, 45).in_time_zone # => Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:30:45 EST -05:00
See TimeZone and ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Zones for further documentation for these methods.
TimeWithZone instances implement the same API as Ruby Time instances, so that Time and TimeWithZone instances are interchangable. Examples:
t = Time.zone.now # => Sun, 18 May 2008 13:27:25 EDT -04:00 t.hour # => 13 t.dst? # => true t.utc_offset # => -14400 t.zone # => "EDT" t.to_s(:rfc822) # => "Sun, 18 May 2008 13:27:25 -0400" t + 1.day # => Mon, 19 May 2008 13:27:25 EDT -04:00 t.beginning_of_year # => Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST -05:00 t > Time.utc(1999) # => true t.is_a?(Time) # => true t.is_a?(ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone) # => true
time_zone | [R] |
Coerces the date to a string for JSON encoding.
ISO 8601 format is used if ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding.use_standard_json_time_format is set.
# With ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding.use_standard_json_time_format = true Time.utc(2005,2,1,15,15,10).in_time_zone.to_json # => "2005-02-01T15:15:10Z" # With ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding.use_standard_json_time_format = false Time.utc(2005,2,1,15,15,10).in_time_zone.to_json # => "2005/02/01 15:15:10 +0000"
Send the missing method to time instance, and wrap result in a new TimeWithZone with the existing time_zone.
Ensure proxy class responds to all methods that underlying time instance responds to.
Replaces %Z and %z directives with zone and formatted_offset, respectively, before passing to Time#strftime, so that zone information is correct
:db format outputs time in UTC; all others output time in local. Uses TimeWithZone‘s strftime, so %Z and %z work correctly.