Parts of time like year month day hour minute etc can also be passed.
Time current ruby.
Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default.
While creating a new time instance you need to pass at least a year.
The time class represents dates and times in ruby.
In ruby the date library which includes the datetime date and time classes.
Time is an abstraction of dates and times.
If you want the time zone offset you can use the utc offset method.
This will use your current system s time.
An optional argument the offset indicates the difference between the local time and utc.
The output for this method is in seconds but you can divide by 3600 to get it in hours.
The main objective of this article is to facilitate the learners with the most common use of these datetime date and time classes of ruby language.
These classes are specially created to work with dates and times in ruby programs.
The time class treats gmt greenwich mean time and utc coordinated universal time as equivalent gmt is the older way of referring to these baseline times but persists in the names of calls on posix systems.
A new time instance can be created with new.
If only year is passed then time will default to january 1 of that year at 00 00 00 with current system time zone.
Time now utc ruby time formatting.
For example rational 3 24 represents ahead of 3 hours of utc rational 5 24 represents behind of 5 hours of utc.
This class may be unable on your system to represent dates before 1970 or after 2038.
Time is stored internally as the number of seconds with fraction since the epoch january 1 1970 00 00 utc also see the library module date.
T time now t zone cet t utc offset 3600 1 you can also get the current time in utc.