I have a string in the format of "2016-03-02T17:27:32.000+00:00", which I need to convert to a Time object. Is there an easy way in ruby to do this or do I need to parse the string first? 

When I try

```
Time.new("2016-03-02T17:27:32.000+00:00")

```

I get 

```
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000

```