Ruby on Rails

TL;DR - https://gist.github.com/jwoertink/5035116


I have a datetime picker in my app
(http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/). When someone clicks
in a text_field, the picker pops up and displays the calendar with the
time, and timezone.

I have the timezones for that select box populated like this

var timezones = function() {
zones = [
<% ActiveSupport::TimeZone.all.sort_by(&:name).each_with_index do
|timezone, index| %>
{ value: '<%= timezone.formatted_offset(false) %>', label: "<%=
timezone.name %>" },
<% end %>
]

return zones;
};


The issue I'm running into is that when someone selects "Pacific Time
(US & Canada)" the value of that option is "-0800". If the date they
selected is after March 10th (2013), then the "Pacific Time (US &
Canada)" time zone is actually "-0700". So what happens is they save the
record as 2013-03-15 08:00 pm -0800, then it gets stored in the DB as
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:00:00 PDT -07:00.

Now, if they save the date as before March 10th (2013), then it saves
the correct time.

So, is there some method in rails where I can pass a date, and it will
return the proper offset for any time zone with DST into consideration?

Thanks,
~Jeremy

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