rails 3 parsing date using strftime

Having a problem parsing dates taken in from scraping a website using nokogiri. I scrape the datetime using

@date = h4.at('time[itemprop="startDate"]')[:datetime]

This gives me 2015-04-28 19:30:00 UTC, which is inserted into my date column, of type datetime.

Using strptime I am trying to parse the date into a dd/mm format, and enter it into my rails table.

Date.strptime(@date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z").strftime("%m/%d/%Y")

@event=Event.new
@event.date= @date

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance