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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

#8059 — parse date string having "EDT"

I was trying to parse a date string containing "EDT" time zone

eg: 'Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011'

I tried:

datetime.strptime('Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y')

But I get error

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#8069

Junaid P V <junu.pv@gmail.com> writes:

> I tried:
>
> datetime.strptime('Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y')
>
> But I get error

When reporting that you get an error, please give the full error and
traceback.


My mind reading skills are telling me, though, that you're getting a
ValueError because you're trying to parse a timezone that is unknown to
the ‘time.strptime’ function. See its documentation for why
<URL:http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime>.

-- 
 \       “Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a |
  `\    religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.” |
_o__)                                                       —Anonymous |
Ben Finney

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#8075

Junaid P V <junu.pv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I was trying to parse a date string containing "EDT" time zone
>
>eg: 'Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011'
>
>I tried:
>
>datetime.strptime('Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y')
>
>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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#8077

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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 \            “Human reason is snatching everything to itself, leaving |
  `\                     nothing for faith.” —Saint Bernard, 1090–1153 |
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Ben Finney

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#8259

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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