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Re: parse date string having "EDT"

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Junaid P V <junu.pv@gmail.com> wrote:
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>I was trying to parse a date string containing "EDT" time zone
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>eg: 'Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011'
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>I tried:
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>datetime.strptime('Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y')
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>But I get error

Right, because strptime doesn't support %Z.  You'll have to handle that
yourself and remove it before conversion.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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parse date string having "EDT" Junaid P V <junu.pv@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 19:56 -0700
  Re: parse date string having "EDT" Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-21 14:12 +1000
  Re: parse date string having "EDT" Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2011-06-20 22:52 -0700
    Re: parse date string having "EDT" Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-21 16:10 +1000
      Re: parse date string having "EDT" Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2011-06-22 20:55 -0700

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