Out of curiosity -- just what zone /is/ "BDT"... The only thing that comes to mind is a type for "BST" (British Summer Time)
I think you are right. This date string was taken from a .co.uk site. :-)
My fault. It was a 3 letter code after a date, I was sure that it is a time zone. Apparently, it is not. :-)
The "did not match format" message was misleading me. It would be better to throw ValueError("Unknown time zone: BDT"). :-)
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