Rails: Converting created_at to PST-CodePudding

I want to convert the created_at to this format January 12, 2:00 PM PST.

The first step I tried was to convert the created_at field to Pacific Standard Time (PST).

However, I'm stuck - I can't even get past this step.

I've tried these, but neither worked:

Time.parse(self.created_at).in_time_zone('Pacific Time (US & Canada)')

time = Time.parse(self.created_at)
time.in_time_zone('Pacific Time (US & Canada)')

I receive no implicit conversion of ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone into String when I do this.

I based it on these questions:

How do you convert the following time from UTC to EST in Ruby (without Rails)?

How to convert time from UTC to PST in rails

CodePudding user response：

Since it is already a datetime, you should be able to just do this to convert it:

self.created_at.in_time_zone('Pacific Time (US & Canada)')

Don't forget to save the new time zone to the record in the database. Time.parse() is meant to convert strings into datetime(https://apidock.com/ruby/v2_5_5/Time/parse/class).