Paul Ganssle <p.gans...@gmail.com> added the comment:
@Alex LordThorsen: It will accept EST if EST is one of your "local" time zones, so whatever's in `time.tzname`. In the short term, I think the right thing to do would be to update the documentation to remove the reference to "EST", and add an explanatory note in the section about %Z that explains that it accepts a few hard-coded values + whatever's in `time.tzname`. In the long run, I think the best "out of the box" support we can provide would be supporting %Z when %z is present (per Alexander's suggestion), and possibly something akin to `dateutil`'s "tzinfos", where a mapping between abbreviations and `tzinfo` objects could be passed to `strptime` explicitly. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue22377> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
