Ruby | DateTime offset() function

DateTime#offset() is a DateTime class method which returns the DateTime object offset.

Syntax: DateTime.offset()

Parameter: DateTime values

Return: the DateTime object offset.

Example #1 :

# Ruby code for DateTime.offset() method

# loading library
require 'date'

# declaring DateTime value
date_a = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10, 4, 10, 9)

# declaring DateTime value
date_b = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10.5)

# declaring DateTime value
date_c = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10, 4, 10, 9, Rational(4, 24))


#  offset method
puts "DateTime offset form : #{date_a.offset}\n\n"

puts "DateTime offset form : #{date_b.offset}\n\n"

puts "DateTime offset form : #{date_c.offset}\n\n"

Output :

DateTime offset form : 0/1

DateTime offset form : 0/1

DateTime offset form : 1/6

Example #2 :

# Ruby code for DateTime.offset() method

# loading library
require 'date'

# declaring DateTime value
date_a = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10, 5)

# declaring DateTime value
date_b = DateTime.parse('10 Aug 2018 04:10:06+04:30')

# declaring DateTime value
date_c = DateTime.new(2019, 8, 10, 4, 10, 9, '+03:00')


#  offset method
puts "DateTime offset form : #{date_a.offset}\n\n"

puts "DateTime offset form : #{date_b.offset}\n\n"

puts "DateTime offset form : #{date_c.offset}\n\n"

Output :

DateTime offset form : 0/1

DateTime offset form : 3/16

DateTime offset form : 1/8