Question

I have a rails application and i need to get the Eastern standard Time using the Time class

I am just trying to make sure that we always use eastern stand time so I can sync with a countdown every 3 seconds…

here is the code

Jquery code

$j(document).ready(function() {
  refresh();
  function refresh() {
    $j.getJSON("/timer", function(data) {
      console.log(data);
    });
    setTimeout(refresh, 3000);
  }
});

RAILS Controller action

def refresh_timer
  respond_to do |format|
    format.json { render :json => Time.now}
  end
end

Answer 1

Time.now.in_time_zone 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'

Or just use this if your server is configured to use EST:

Time.now.localtime