Re: parse date string having "EDT"

From	Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: parse date string having "EDT"
Date	2011-06-22 20:55 -0700
Organization	Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:

>Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> writes:
>
>> Right, because strptime doesn't support %Z.
>
>Au contraire:
>
>    Support for the %Z directive is based on the values contained in
>    tzname and whether daylight is true. Because of this, it is
>    platform-specific except for recognizing UTC and GMT which are
>    always known (and are considered to be non-daylight savings timezones).

I do keep forgetting that Python's strptime does not just pass through to
the C library.  C's strptime does not support %Z.
-- 
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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