Rails/ruby transform string to UTC

Question

I'm currently doing:

DateTime::strptime('12/11/17', "%d/%m/%Y") => Fri, 12 Nov 0017 00:00:00 +0000

But I want Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 UTC +00:00

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The following snipped should do what you are looking for (using ruby 2.3):

DateTime::strptime('12/11/17', "%m/%d/%y").strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S UTC %Z") 
#=> "Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 UTC +00:00"