How can I force the Time.rfc2822
function to spit out +0000
?
Ruby lets me parse RFC2822 formatted times pretty easily:
require 'time'
time = Time.parse('14 Aug 2009 09:28:32 +0000')
puts time
=> "2009-08-14 05:28:32 -0400"
But what about displaying times? Notice that the time it parsed is a local time. No worries, I can convert it back to a UTC time with gmtime
:
puts time.gmtime
=> "2009-08-14 09:28:32 UTC"
I can then put it back into RFC2822 format:
puts time.gmtime.rfc2822
=> "Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:28:32 -0000"
Unfortunately, this is not quite what I want. Notice that the +0000
is now -0000
. According to RFC2822, this is because:
The form "+0000" SHOULD be used to indicate a time zone at Universal Time. Though "-0000" also indicates Universal Time, it is used to indicate that the time was generated on a system that may be in a local time zone other than Universal Time and therefore indicates that the date-time contains no information about the local time zone.
Great - so how can I force +0000
other than monkey-patching the rfc2822
function?