Display your machine's current time (in your timezone) and in UTC.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'utc_on_demand'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install utc_on_demand
Installing the gem will place the executable utc. Calling utc from the command line will return:
$ utc
EST: 2018-01-17 19:39:50 -0500
UTC: 2018-01-18 00:39:50 UTC
Where, the first line returns your current system's time (in the configured timezone). The second line displays your current system time in UTC.
If you would like to convert a specific time to UTC, please add a argument to utc.
$ utc 1:35pm
EST: 2018-01-17 13:35:00 -0500
UTC: 2018-01-17 18:35:00 UTC
It can also take a string argument and parse it. This implements ruby's built in Time library's #parse function.
$ utc "2017/12/25 11:00am"
EST: 2017-12-25 11:00:00 -0500
UTC: 2017-12-25 16:00:00 UTC
Enjoy!
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/reidcooper/utc_on_demand.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.