I'm working on something that involves parsing out a date from a
string, so i'm using the datetime.strptime() function. I've noticed
that this works correctly in python, but when i run it within a django
environment it doesn't seem to work. Example, in python:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/mu_tools$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> test_time = "Tue Sep 30 15:33:07 EDT"
>>> test_format = "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z"
>>> datetime.strptime(test_time, test_format)
datetime.datetime(1900, 9, 30, 15, 33, 7)
>>>
And in a django python shell:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/mu_tools$ ./manage.py shell
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
(InteractiveConsole)
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> test_time = "Tue Sep 30 15:33:07 EDT"
>>> test_format = "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z"
>>> datetime.strptime(test_time, test_format)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/_strptime.py", line 330, in strptime
(data_string, format))
ValueError: time data did not match format: data=Tue Sep 30 15:33:07
EDT fmt=%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z
After playing with different types of strings, the problem seems to be
the timezone - if i leave the timezone out of the time string and the
format string, it will parse correctly. However, I'm not sure why this
would break in Django - presumably it's something to do with the
timezone setting in settings.py? (this is django-1.0, btw)
If anybody can point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate
it. Thanks in advance.
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