#32727: Support spaces separaters in ISO-8601 datetimes between times and
timezone
strings
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Reporter: Ben Wilber | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Utilities | Version: 3.2
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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According to ISO-8601, there can be any number of whitespace characters
between the time strings and timezone strings.
Unfortunately the spec isn't public, but here's the link anyway
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html.
Examples:
This is a valid ISO-8601 datetime string:
```
2012-04-23T10:20:30.400-02
```
Django's `django.utils.dateparse.parse_datetime` parses this correctly.
This is also a valid ISO-8601 datetime string:
```
2012-04-23T10:20:30.400 -02
```
Django's `django.utils.dateparse.parse_datetime` does not parse this
correctly and returns `None`,
However, `python-dateutil` parses it correctly. The difference is that
Django uses a very brittle REGEX to parse ISO-8601 datetime strings, and
python-dateutil does not.
I would recommend that Django:
1) Depend on python-dateutil
2) Inline python-dateutils' parsing functions
As far as I know there is no regex that can parse the full spec of
ISO-8601 datetime strings.
In the meantime, this is a patch to support (valid) whitespace characters
between the seconds/millseconds part and the timezone string.
GitHub Pull Request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/14368
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