Time is stored internally as the number of seconds with fraction since the epoch january 1 1970 00 00 utc also see the library module date.
Ruby time now without milliseconds.
T time now t zone cet t utc offset 3600 1 you can also get the current time in utc.
You can also convert milliseconds to date time and the other way around.
Time is an abstraction of dates and times.
Something that adapts to your use case.
It is a thin layer over the system date and time functionality provided by the operating system.
The time class represents dates and times in ruby.
But that gets you this.
First make sure to require time in order to get iso8601 formatting.
0900 z time zone name literal character.
Ruby formats time objects in a specific way by default.
But you may want something else.
You can use a method to get almost any format you need.
This class may be unable on your system to represent dates before 1970 or after 2038.
X preferred representation for the date alone no time x preferred representation for the time alone no date y year without a century 00 99 y year with century z time zone as hour offset from utc e g.
This site provides the current time in milliseconds elapsed since the unix epoch jan 1 1970 as well as in other common formats including local utc time comparisons.
The time class treats gmt greenwich mean time and utc coordinated universal time as equivalent gmt is the older way of referring to these baseline times but persists in the names of calls on posix systems.