I know I’m missing something here, but I’ve bounced around from Calendar and Timex trying to get a :strftime format with the offset computed in the formatted hours to no avail.

Is there a way to format a DateTime string using :strftime but computing the offset in the hours representation?

Currently, I convert a NaiveDateTime with Timex so that I can see what Calendar's calculating as the offset (which shows that everything is correct time-wise — just not my formatting ability).

dt = Timex.to_datetime(naive_date_string, "America/New_York")
datetime = Calendar.strftime(dt, "%A %b. %d, %Y @ %I:%M %z")

"Friday Aug. 20, 2021 @ 06:14 -0400"

It seems like whenever I come back to formatting using :strftime I arrive back in the future because the offset is not able to be computed in the formatted hours.

When I use the %z to see what the offset is, it’s correct and leaves me wishing I could just use something like %I only with the offset computed from the inputted datetime.