strptime for different languages

[Tobiah]

> A couple of point about your code:
> 
> 1. Don't use a bare 'except' because it'll catch _any_ exception. See
> what exception strptime will raise and catch only that.

I'm well aware of this, but I was too lazy to write something
to generate the exception to find out what datetime would throw
in this case.  It crossed my mind when posting, but I was illustrating
an idea rather than submitting usable code.
  
> 2. Why use 'continue' instead of 'pass'?

No reason.  Does one have a benefit over the other?


Tobiah