It's taken me a couple of hours to give up on strptime with %Z for recognizing time zones... but that still leaves me in the wrong zone:
def paypal_to_mysql_date(ppDate): # a typical paypal date is 10:29:52 Feb 29, 2008 PST date_parts = ppDate.split() withouttz = " ".join(date_parts[:-1]) # eventually we need to apply the timezone timezone = date_parts[-1] dt = datetime.strptime(withouttz, "%H:%M:%S %b %d, %Y") return dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") How can I use the "PST" (or any other time zone name) to adjust dt by the correct number of hours to get it into UTC before storing in MySQL? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list