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

Convert specific date format in UTC.

ActiveSupport::TimeZone['UTC'].parse(Time.strptime('01/24/2019T16:10:16', "%m/%d/%YT%H:%M:%S").asctime)