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Which-time

Gem which gives you a simple way to find local time (timezone) of some place, address, city, region country or any other location which you want.

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Installation

  1. Create google app for your project to use Google API.
  2. Enable Geocoding API and TimeZone API access for your google app.
  3. Get API_KEY from settings of your google app (something like "AIzaSyCqfXRRJ1d8mCS_I0Kcs4XnaZ9KYRUrJVE").
  4. Set up your google app for work (in development mode usage of API is limited: only 2500 requests per day)
  5. Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

    gem 'which_time'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Manually:

gem install which_time

Usage

1. Get local time of some address

WhichTime.in somewhere, api_key: google_api_key

or

WhichTime.in somewhere, api_key: google_api_key, time: your_time

or

WhichTime.in somewhere, api_key: google_api_key, time: your_time, http_proxy: proxy_url

examples:

  WhichTime.in "Kyiv, pub 'Naturlih'", api_key: "AIzaSyCqfXRRJ1d8mCS_I0Kcs4XnaZ9KYRUrJVE"
  # => 2015-07-06 03:53:10 +0300
  WhichTime.in "Kyiv", api_key: "AIzaSyCqfXRRJ1d8mCS_I0Kcs4XnaZ9KYRUrJVE", time: 2.days.ago
  # => 2015-07-04 03:53:10 +0300

2. Get local time of some address (variant 2)

WhichTime.new( somewhere, api_key: google_api_key, time: your_time ).time
# => 2015-07-06 03:53:10 +0300 

3. Get timezone of some place/address/city/country

WhichTime.new( somewhere, api_key: google_api_key ).timezone

examples:

  WhichTime.new("Kyiv, pub 'Naturlih'", api_key: "AIzaSyCqfXRRJ1d8mCS_I0Kcs4XnaZ9KYRUrJVE").timezone
  WhichTime.in("Kyiv", api_key: "AIzaSyCqfXRRJ1d8mCS_I0Kcs4XnaZ9KYRUrJVE").timezone
  # => "Europe/Kiev"

4. Get coordinates of some place/address/location

WhichTime.new( somewhere, api_key: google_api_key ).location
# => {"lat"=>50.4501, "lng"=>30.5234}

5. Get coordinates of some place/address/location (variant 2)

WhichTime.new( somewhere, api_key: google_api_key ).coordinates
# => "50.4501,30.5234"

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/bmalets/which_time/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request