On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 PM, m_ahlenius <ahleni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > perhaps I missed this posted already somewhere. > > I am got a program which reads time stings from some devices which > are providing the time zones. I have to take this into account when > doing some epoch time calculations. > > When I run the following code with the time zone string set to 'GMT' > it works ok. > > This works: > > myStrA = 'Sun Aug 22 19:03:06 GMT' > > gTimeA = strptime( myStrA, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z') > > print "gTimeA = ",gTimeA > > --- <snip> > > 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' > > But when its set to 'PDT' it fails. > > Any ideas?
Read The Fine Manual. Quoth http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime : """ time.strptime(string[, format]) [...] Support for the %Z directive is based on the values contained in time.tzname and whether time.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). """ Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
