I am trying to parse a str as a datetime.datetime object. However, I am unable to achieve this because the timezone is GST.
import datetime s_dt = 'Mon Jul 01 17:17:37 UTC' datetime.datetime.strptime(s_dt, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z') # datetime.datetime(1900, 7, 1, 17, 17, 37) s_dt = 'Mon Jul 01 17:17:37 GST' datetime.datetime.strptime(s_dt, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z') # ValueError: time data 'Mon Jul 01 17:17:37 GST' does not match format '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z' How can I fix this?
There are two ways to deal with this:-
Replace the GST in the string, to UTC
Replace the GST in the string, to UTC with proper time conversion (decreasing the time in UTC by 4 hours, as time GST is +4 hours from UTC).
METHOD 1:-
s_dt = 'Mon Jul 01 17:17:37 GST'.replace("GST", "UTC") datetime.datetime.strptime(s_dt, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z') METHOD 2:-
# replacing GST to UTC in original string s_dt = 'Mon Jul 01 17:17:37 GST'.replace("GST", "UTC") # getting the hours from the string s_dt_obj = int(s_dt.split(":")[0][-2:]) # substracting 4 from the hours (in order to create UTC equivalent of GST time) s_dt_obj = str((s_dt_obj - 4) % 24) # putting everything back to a string s_dt_obj = f"{s_dt.split(':')[0][:-2]}{s_dt_obj}:{s_dt.split(':')[1]}:{s_dt.split(':')[2]}" # creating datetime object out of our newly created string datetime.datetime.strptime(s_dt_obj, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z') # datetime.datetime(1900, 7, 1, 13, 17, 37) 