How to convert a string to ISO-standard datetime?

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I found a way to make it work thanks for this question/answer duo from StackOverflow.

For a vector x for strings formatted "2017-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", do this

using Dates, TimeZones

date_format = DateFormat("y-m-d HH:MM:SSzzzz")
DateTime.(x. date_format)

Not only does this work, it also drops the timezone part, which I intended to do anyway. The original post in the link actually shows a way to split the string before conversion.