Getting time when cron job is invoked

[kazhian]

I created a cron job which generates a report. In report i want to include the job time, instead of calculating current time.

So, I passed job parameter to the code block. When I use job.last_time it gives me the time. But how to find the time zone from it?

Rufus::Scheduler.new.cron '* * * * *' do |job|
    puts "#{job.last_time.zone}"
end

But the zone is printed as 'Etc - UTC'. Why it displays two zones?

[jmettraux]

Hello,

"Etc" is not a time zone, it's an area. See also the list of database timezones.

Closing since it's not a Rufus-Scheduler issue but it's related to how your system is set.

Best regards.

[jmettraux]

Other ways to play with it:

require 'rufus-scheduler'

s = Rufus::Scheduler.new

s.cron '*/3 * * * * *' do |job|
  puts "-"
  puts "#{job.last_time}"
  puts "#{job.last_time.zone}"
  puts "#{job.last_time.zone.name}"
  puts "#{job.last_time.zone.abbreviation}"
  puts "#{job.last_time.zone.canonical_zone}"
  puts "#{job.last_time.zone.canonical_identifier}"
  puts "#{job.last_time.zone.friendly_identifier}"
  puts "#{job.last_time.to_t}"
  puts "#{job.last_time.to_t.zone}"
end

s.join

[kazhian]

Thank you !!