Convert DateTime String to UTC in rails

Question

I have a string like this:

\"2010-01-01 12:30:00\"

I need that to convert to UTC from the current local time zone.

I tried this, but it

Answer 1

For APIs you can use:

utc_date = Time.parse("2013-05-31 00:00").utc.iso8601 #=> Result will be: 2013-05-30T21:00:00Z

You can check these articles:

• Working with time zones in Ruby on Rails
• ISO8601 - Dates In Ruby