Strip time zone part from Time in Ruby

How to strip time zone part from Time leaving date and time parts intact? Currently I am using strftime function. My end goal is to query MySQL with local time for sure. I should be sure that local time won't be suddenly converted to something else.

How do you parse time in Ruby?

Ruby | DateTime parse() function DateTime#parse() : parse() is a DateTime class method which parses the given representation of date and time, and creates a DateTime object. Return: given representation of date and time, and creates a DateTime object.

What does time now return in Ruby?

The now() is an inbuilt method in Ruby returns the current time.

You can use time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') as used by activesupport in eg