[issue33940] datetime.strptime have no directive to convert date values with Era and Time Zone name

Change by Alexander Belopolsky : -- superseder: -> %Z in strptime doesn't match EST and others ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue33940] datetime.strptime have no directive to convert date values with Era and Time Zone name

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[issue33940] datetime.strptime have no directive to convert date values with Era and Time Zone name

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Since the Python datetime only supports dates within 0001-01-01 through -12-31 range, it is not clear how we can meaningfully support the AD/BC era designation. Looking at man strftime page on my Mac, I see that they use every upper an lower case

[issue33940] datetime.strptime have no directive to convert date values with Era and Time Zone name

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Thanks for the report Raghunath. Regarding timezone detection there is a limitation with %Z supporting only UTC, GMT and `time.tzname` which is not documented and it's an open issue tracked at issue22377 . Regarding a directive to determine Era I

[issue33940] datetime.strptime have no directive to convert date values with Era and Time Zone name

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[issue33940] datetime.strptime have no directive to convert date values with Era and Time Zone name

New submission from Raghunath Lingutla : Python3.6 module datetime.strptime didn't have directive to convert date values having Era designator (AD or BC) and time zone (Ex: EST, PST, -07:00) Below are few example for date values which are not supported 2018-04-14 12:08:56 EST 2018-05-23