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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:40:27 +1000
Subject: Re: python-dateutil suggestiopn
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm using imaplib to download and process messages from Gmail. I use
> dateutil.parser.parse to parse the Date header into a datetime object, then
> use the most recent date I've seen to decide where to start up on the next
> run.
>
> Every once in awhile, I encountered a Date header I couldn't parse. The
> couple I've seen so far have the same problem: two different spellings of
> the timezone offset.
>
>     Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:42:08 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>     Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:14:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

That's an RFC 822 comment attached to the Date header. I've no idea
why you're seeing that - which client feels the need to adorn the date
like that??? - but I think it would be appropriate to remove anything
in parentheses before attempting to parse the date.

ChrisA