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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: get the min date from a list
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luofeiyu <elearn2014@gmail.com>:

>         y=time.strptime(time_part,"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")

As I said, whether that works depends on your locale -- according to the
reference documentation.

In practice, I couldn't get that to fail in my tests. I would be on my
guard, though. That might mean I couldn't use strptime to convert the
dates.


Marko