Date Conversion for MongoDB

date_conversion.rb

Here is a way to deal with this issue:

def convertIssueDatesInMongo (issues)

    issues.each do |y|
        y["created_at"] = DateTime.strptime(y["created_at"], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z').to_time.utc
        y["updated_at"] = DateTime.strptime(y["updated_at"], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z').to_time.utc
    end
    return issues
     end
issues is a Array with a hash inside of it.
This example was from dealing with the Github API for the Issues API.
Note that "to_time" is only available starting in ruby ~1.9