How to convert time from one timezone to another

[Praveen BK]

Hello,

How to convert utc time to a time in a particular time zone. As I
need to display local time of timezone(-05:00).



Thank you,
Praveen

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[mike2r]

use the ruby method local time.  in my example, i have an object post with an attribute created_at that is a date/time.  You display this in local time with formatting as follows:

<%= post.created_at.localtime.strftime("%-m/%-d/%Y at %-I:%M %p") %>