stftime %z time conversion character

[Evan Klitzke]

On 6/19/07, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> Evan Klitzke wrote:
> > Although it is not present in ANSI C, the GNU version of stftime
> > supports the conversion character %z, which is a time offset from GMT.
> > The four digit time offset is required in RFC 2822 dates/times, and is
> > used by a number of other programs as well. I need to convert times
> > that use this convention to python time representations, and because
> > Python does not support the %z time conversion character I cannot
> > simply use the time.strptime function.
>
> See this patch for an idea of the scope of this problem:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1667546&group_id=5470
>
> > What solutions have people used for this? I'm currently thinking of
> > creating a dict that maps four digit time offsets to the time zone
> > name and then use the %Z token on that. Is there another (or better)
> > way?
>
> Apart from a patch which would allow the time module functions to
> produce the output you desire, an alternative might involve the
> datetime module and timezone-aware datetime objects:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9848f3054b4f3eae
>
> I refer indirectly to the pytz module in the above message:
>
> http://pytz.sourceforge.net/
>
> Paul

Thanks Paul, your answer was very helpful.

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Evan Klitzke <evan at yelp.com>