On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote:

> My guess is that the OP is parsing dates that have a numerical TZ offset
> (like most date formats found in internet protocols like http or email
> headers).
>

If datetime.strptime() does not satisfy OP needs already, I am +1 for
improving it.  We have an open issue for that already: <
http://bugs.python.org/issue24954>.


> But there's really no substitute for just calling
>
>     datetime(....., tzinfo=timezone(timedelta(hours=......)))
>

This is ugly, but hopefully you won't see this outside of timezone support
library functions.
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