How do I get Ruby to parse time as if it were in a different time zone?
If your using rails you can use the ActiveSupport::TimeZone helpers
current_timezone = Time.zoneTime.zone = "UTC"Time.zone.parse("Tue Nov 23 23:29:57 2010") # => Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:29:57 UTC +00:00Time.zone = current_timezoneIt is designed to have the timezone set at the beginning of the request based on user timezone.
Everything does need to have Time.zone on it, so Time.parse would still parse as the servers timezone.
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeZone.html
Note: the time format you have above was no longer working, so I changed to a format that is supported.
credit from https://rubyinrails.com/2018/05/30/rails-parse-date-time-string-in-utc-zone/,
Time.find_zone("UTC").parse(datetime)# => Wed, 30 May 2018 18:00:00 UTC +05:30