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Ruby Ruby Core and Standard Library Ruby Standard Library: Part 1 Timezones and Offsets

Posted by Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

How do you change time to UTC in Ruby?

How do you change it to UTC??? What's wrong???

time.rb 
time = Time.now
time.dup.utc

1 Answer

Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points

To change the time to UTC you can simply add 'utc' to the end of Time.now, like so:

time = Time.now.utc

Hope that helps!!

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

thx!!