Display DateTime in client side Time zone

suppose you want to convert datetime in client side(browser) time zone and display it.
example take events, Events have date so that event date first you have to store it in database as GMT timezone
then write javascript function for onload event like this
function events()
{
var currentDate = new Date();
var offset = currentDate.getTimezoneOffset().toString();
new Ajax.Updater(’events’, ‘/events/load_events?offset=’ + offset, {asynchronous:true, [...]

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Formating date Time in Rails

You can format Date field by using strftime function
example :
Time.now()
=> Wed Dec 12 15:48:59 +0530 2007
Time.now().strftime(”%d/%m/%y %H:%M” => “12/12/07 15:50″
Here’s the (shortened) table for strftime.
%a  weekday name.
%A  weekday name (full).
%b  month name.
%B  month name (full).
%c  date and time (locale)
%d  day of month [01,31].
%H  hour [00,23].
%I  hour [01,12].
%j  day of year [001,366].
%m  month [01,12].
%M  minute [00,59].
%p  AM [...]

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