It allows us to do the following:. Retrieve and display zones with a friendlier name e. If you set config. Locate a specific time zone object. If the argument is a string, it is interpreted to mean the name of the timezone to locate. If it is a numeric value it is either the hour offset, or the second offset, of the timezone to find.
The first one with that offset will be returned. Returns nil if no such time zone is known to the system. Source: show on GitHub. Returns an array of all TimeZone objects. There are multiple TimeZone objects per time zone, in many cases, to make it easier for users to find their own time zone. A convenience method for returning a collection of TimeZone objects for time zones in the country specified by its ISO Alpha2 code.
Create a new TimeZone object with the given name and offset. Source: on GitHub. Returns a TimeZone instance with the given name, or nil if no such TimeZone instance exists.
Compare this time zone to the parameter. The two are compared first on their offsets, and then by name. Compare name and TZInfo identifier to a supplied regexp, returning true if a match is found. Method for creating new ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instance in time zone of self from number of seconds since the Unix epoch. If the string is invalid then an ArgumentError will be raised unlike parse which usually returns nil when given an invalid date string.
Returns an ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instance representing the current time in the time zone represented by self. Method for creating new ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instance in time zone of self from parsed string. If upper components are missing from the string, they are supplied from TimeZone now :.
