如何在 Ruby 中将 DateTime.now 转换为 UTC?

如果有 d = DateTime.now,如何将‘ d’转换为 UTC (带有适当的日期) ?

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d = DateTime.now.utc

Oops!

That seems to work in Rails, but not vanilla Ruby (and of course that is what the question is asking)

d = Time.now.utc

Does work however.

Is there any reason you need to use DateTime and not Time? Time should include everything you need:

irb(main):016:0> Time.now
=> Thu Apr 16 12:40:44 +0100 2009

In irb:

>>d = DateTime.now
=> #<DateTime: 11783702280454271/4800000000,5/12,2299161>
>> "#{d.hour.to_i - d.zone.to_i}:#{d.min}:#{d.sec}"
=> "11:16:41"

will convert the time to the utc. But as posted if it is just Time you can use:

Time.now.utc

and get it straight away.

DateTime.now.new_offset(0)

will work in standard Ruby (i.e. without ActiveSupport).

Unfortunately, the DateTime class doesn't have the convenience methods available in the Time class to do this. You can convert any DateTime object into UTC like this:

d = DateTime.now
d.new_offset(Rational(0, 24))

You can switch back from UTC to localtime using:

d.new_offset(DateTime.now.offset)

where d is a DateTime object in UTC time. If you'd like these as convenience methods, then you can create them like this:

class DateTime
def localtime
new_offset(DateTime.now.offset)
end


def utc
new_offset(Rational(0, 24))
end
end

You can see this in action in the following irb session:

d = DateTime.now.new_offset(Rational(-4, 24))
=> #<DateTime: 106105391484260677/43200000000,-1/6,2299161>
1.8.7 :185 > d.to_s
=> "2012-08-03T15:42:48-04:00"
1.8.7 :186 > d.localtime.to_s
=> "2012-08-03T12:42:48-07:00"
1.8.7 :187 > d.utc.to_s
=> "2012-08-03T19:42:48+00:00"

As you can see above, the initial DateTime object has a -04:00 offset (Eastern Time). I'm in Pacific Time with a -07:00 offset. Calling localtime as described previously properly converts the DateTime object into local time. Calling utc on the object properly converts it to a UTC offset.

You can set an ENV if you want your Time.now and DateTime.now to respond in UTC time.

require 'date'
Time.now #=> 2015-11-30 11:37:14 -0800
DateTime.now.to_s #=> "2015-11-30T11:37:25-08:00"
ENV['TZ'] = 'UTC'
Time.now #=> 2015-11-30 19:37:38 +0000
DateTime.now.to_s #=> "2015-11-30T19:37:36+00:00"

Try this, works in Ruby:

DateTime.now.to_time.utc