timedelta problem

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:24 PM, luofeiyu <elearn2014 at gmail.com> wrote:
> import datetime
> t1='Sat, 09 Aug 2014 07:36:46 -0700'
> t2='Sat, 09 Aug 2014 07:36:46 +0700'
> >>> datetime.datetime.strptime(t1,"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
> datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 9, 7, 36, 46,
tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timed
> elta(-1, 61200)))
> >>> datetime.datetime.strptime(t2,"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
> datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 9, 7, 36, 46,
tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timed
> elta(0, 25200)))
>
>
> problem :
>
> t1 is GMT time   2014  00:36:46
> t2 is GMT time   2014  14:36:46

You have it backwards. t1 is a later time than t2.

> datetime.datetime.strptime  do not give me the right answer.

>>> dt1 - dt2
datetime.timedelta(0, 50400)
>>> _.seconds // 3600
14

Looks correct to me.
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