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Re: parse date string having "EDT"

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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).

    <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime>

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Ben Finney

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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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