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Python

Posted by Edgar Castelo
Edgar Castelo
Courses Plus Student 19,428 Points

Problem with strptime

Hi, I'm having some issues while trying to parse the next string using strptime

Mon Jan 18 2016 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (CST)

I am using the next sentence datetime.datetime.strptime(value, '%a %b %m %Y %H:%M:%s %Z') but i keep getting unconverted data remains: -0600 (CST) I tried %z but I get a bad directive error.

1 Answer

Evan Demaris
Evan Demaris
64,262 Points
Evan Demaris
Evan Demaris
64,262 Points

Hi Edgar,

datetime.datetime.strptime has problems with timezone parsing. You can use dateutil or Pytz instead;

from dateutil import parser
parser.parse("Mon Jan 18 2016 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (CST)")