How can I remove the zone from a DateTime value?

Question

I have this DateTime:

=> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:52:42 -0500

How can I remove the zone(-0500) in ruby? I just want something like this:

Answer 1

When all else fails

zoned_time = Time.now
unzoned_time = Time.new(zoned_time.year, zoned_time.month, zoned_time.day, zoned_time.hour, zoned_time.min, zoned_time.sec, "+00:00")