Rails - Apr 2008 - How to convert time from rss feed to another format ?

Hi,

I need to parse the rss feed and use the pubDate field to generate a
field in a xml file to use as an input to simile timeline. RSS returns
the pubDate as :

Sun Feb 24 06:33:32 UTC 2008

But I need it as a string :

"Feb 24 2008 06:33:32 PST"

When I do :
...
@dt=feed_item.time
@dt=@dt.to_date
word_date=''%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %z''

puts   @dt.strftime(word_date)
...

Then I am getting :

Feb 24 2008 00:00:00 +0000


what am I doing wrong?
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> When I do :
> ...
> @dt=feed_item.time
> @dt=@dt.to_date
> word_date=''%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %z''
>
> puts   @dt.strftime(word_date)
> ...
>
> Then I am getting :
>
> Feb 24 2008 00:00:00 +0000
>
>
> what am I doing wrong?
You''re calling to_date - that discards the time of day part.

Fred
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Frederick Cheung wrote:
>>
>> Feb 24 2008 00:00:00 +0000
>>
>>
>> what am I doing wrong?
> 
> You''re calling to_date - that discards the time of day part.
> 
> Fred
Now the output is

Apr 22 2008 10:09:17 Pacific Standard Time

But I want :

Apr 22 2008 10:09:17 PST

Now what should I do?
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