Comments on: Understanding DateTime, tzinfo, timedelta & TimeZone Conversions in python

By: Mark Huang

Mark Huang — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:03:21 +0000

Wow, this is great! So much clearer than the Python docs!!

By: eternicode

eternicode — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:59:31 +0000

python’s dateutil.parser.parse is a useful function for parsing tz-aware strings. For example, the twitter api gives each status a “created_at” attribute in the form of “Fri Oct 09 18:54:01 +0000 2009″. dateutil.parser.parse(“Fri Oct 09 18:54:01 +0000 2009″) returns a datetime object complete with a relevant tzinfo. From there, you can use datetime’s strftime to reformat the time, or time.mktime(datetime.timetuple()) to get a unix timestamp.

By: Rama Vadakattu

Rama Vadakattu — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:20:37 +0000

@William Thanks for informing that.Will check those things and include it here very soon.

By: William

William — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:32:32 +0000

You might also want to point people to PyTZ which provides a set of standard timezone definitions. Also, in the section about converting a datetime into a string, you may want to mention isoformat().

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:28:20 +0000

This is great. Just this week I was scratching my head trying to figure out TZs and the python documentation was confusing me. Thanks!

By: Raja

Raja — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:09:18 +0000

Dude, this is a waaay clearer explanation of python dates & times. Especially the tzinfo parts