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I am using Rails 3.1. Here is my configuration
config.time_zone = "Eastern Time (US & Canada)"
Now user enters Nov 30, 2011 at 7:00 PM. How do I parse this text so that after parsing I get the result in EST?
You can do so by calling
time = ActiveSupport::TimeZone.new('EST').parse('Nov 30, 2011 at 7:00 PM'). Also you can parse the time string as being in user-specific or default timezone by callingTime.zone.parse. You can convert the result time into any timezone thanm i.e.Time.zone.now.in_time_zone('Asia/Yekaterinburg')Also there is no need in do any manual conversions of timezones before storing the time to database as Rails does is automatically.