Datetime library timezone

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I'm trying to convert following string into datetime format

work_date="Sun Aug 23 20:16:44 IST 2020" dt_new=datetime.datetime.strptime(work_date,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y") print(dt_new)

But I am always getting timedata does not match the format. I tried replacing IST with GMT, it works. Also tried replacing IST with 'Asia/Kolkata' but it still doesn't work. I wanted to know if there is some way to register IST under %Z format.

Does this answer your question? Display the time in a different time zone — toydarian
– toydarian, Commented Aug 20, 2020 at 6:55

alex_noname · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-20 07:43:21Z

strptime only accepts certain values for %Z:

any value in time.tzname for your machine's locale
the hard-coded values UTC and GMT

You could use UTC and convert it by pytz third library:

import datetime import pytz work_date = "Sun Aug 23 20:16:44 UTC 2020" dt_new = datetime.datetime.strptime(work_date, "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y") dt_new = dt_new.astimezone(pytz.timezone("Asia/Kolkata")) print(dt_new)

Update: Also you can use dateutil module:

from dateutil.parser import parse from dateutil.tz import gettz tzinfos = {"IST": gettz("Asia/Kolkata")} print(parse("Sun Aug 23 20:16:44 IST 2020", tzinfos=tzinfos))

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