Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> writes: > >> Right, because strptime doesn't support %Z. > >Au contraire: > > 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).
I do keep forgetting that Python's strptime does not just pass through to the C library. C's strptime does not support %Z. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
