On Aug 24, 9:45 pm, m_ahlenius <ahleni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > whereas this fails: > myStrA = 'Sun Aug 22 19:03:06 PDT' > gTimeA = strptime( myStrA, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z') > print "gTimeA = ",gTimeA > > ValueError: time data 'Sun Aug 22 19:03:06 PDT' does not match format > '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z'
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). http://docs.python.org/library/time.html Dateutil has it's own timezone database, so should work reliably http://labix.org/python-dateutil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
