Question

I’m trying to output the timezone of a ruby DateTime object:

DateTime.parse('2012/05/23').strftime('%Z')

This outputs "+00:00". According to the documentation, it should return GMT.

Am I doing something wrong, or have I found a bug?

Answer 1

The DateTime class does not seem to support zone data as zone names. The Time class however does this correctly. So either do this:

require 'date'
require 'time'

Time.parse('...').strftime('%Z')

Or if you already have your data in DateTime format then:

Time.parse(DateTime.parse('...').to_s).strftime('%Z')