What’s the easiest way to give a Time object representing a given time (say 5pm) on a given date (say 1/1/2010) in a given time zone (say EST)?
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What’s the easiest way to give a Time object representing a given time (say 5pm) on a given date (say 1/1/2010) in a given time zone (say EST)?
I’m a big fan of Time.parse, although Time.mktime is also an option:
Note that Time.mktime always renders results using the local timezone, so Time.parse is more flexible in that regard.