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instance method

Time#utc_offset

utc_offset → integer

Alias of #gmtoff

Returns the offset in seconds between the timezones of UTC and self:

Example
Time.utc(2000, 1, 1).utc_offset   # => 0
Time.local(2000, 1, 1).utc_offset # => -21600 # -6*3600, or minus six hours.
See also #gmtoff #utc? #wday #utc also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0