Rails: local workstation parses time differently than server-CodePudding

Have some code to parse a string w/ time zone:

Time.strptime("5/28/19 14:26:36 Eastern Time (US & Canada)", '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S %Z')

The weird thing is that on my local machine, the result is: 2019-05-28 14:26:36 -0600.

However when I run the same line on my Heroku staging server, the result is 2019-05-28 14:26:36 0000.

Perhaps there is some system/Rails time zone configuration that differs between the two environments, but I would expect them to parse the same string correctly.

Using the same version of Ruby, Rails, and all gems on both environments.

Any thoughts?

CodePudding user response：

You should be using Time.zone.strptime to take the timezone into consideration like

Time.zone.strptime("5/28/19 14:26:36 Eastern Time (US & Canada)", '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S %Z')