Rails: How to parse date-time string into a specific time zone

Question

I\'m using Rails 3.2 and ruby 1.9.3 on Debian. I have an app that collects a date, time, and timezone in the form of strings via an HTML form. Something like this:

Answer 1

To have DateTime take the date string and attach a timezone other than UTC without changing the values of the date string , use this, its easy , doesnt break on leap day :)

xx = DateTime.strptime("9/1/15 #{object.time_zone}", "%m/%d/%Y %Z")