How can I get the utc offset in Rails?

If you need to take daylight savings time into account, you can use something like this:

Time.now.in_time_zone('America/New_York').utc_offset

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require 'time'p Time.zone_offset('EST') #=> -18000  #(-5*60*60)

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Time.now.in_time_zone('Europe/London').formatted_offset# => "+01:00"

For a string arguably more usable...

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