Does TZInfo bring you closer?
Stolen from the README:
Example usage
To convert a time in UTC to a local time in the America/New_York timezone,
you can do the following:
require_gem 'tzinfo'
include TZInfo
tz = Timezone.get('America/New_York')
local = tz.utc_to_local(Time.utc(2005,8,29,15,35,0))
Note that the Time returned will look like it is UTC (Time.zone will return
"UTC"). This is because it is not currently possible to change the offset
of an individual Time instance.
nope. timezones are politicalized solar local times. basically i'm searching
a polar orbiting satellite data set for scanlines where the localtime is about
7 am. it sounds easy - it's near impossible.
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