On Aug 24, 4:16 pm, Alex Willmer <a...@moreati.org.uk> wrote: > 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 > reliablyhttp://labix.org/python-dateutil
Thanks much, I missed the directive settings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
