class TimeZone

Ruby on Rails 5.2.8.1

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The TimeZone class serves as a wrapper around TZInfo::Timezone instances. It allows us to do the following:

Limit the set of zones provided by TZInfo to a meaningful subset of 134 zones.
Retrieve and display zones with a friendlier name (e.g., “Eastern Time (US & Canada)” instead of “America/New_York”).
Lazily load TZInfo::Timezone instances only when they’re needed.
Create ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instances via TimeZone’s local, parse, at and now methods.

If you set config.time_zone in the Rails Application, you can access this TimeZone object via Time.zone:

# application.rb:
class Application < Rails::Application
  config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'
end

Time.zone      # => #<ActiveSupport::TimeZone:0x514834...>
Time.zone.name # => "Eastern Time (US & Canada)"
Time.zone.now  # => Sun, 18 May 2008 14:30:44 EDT -04:00

class TimeZone

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