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user3361585
user3361585

Reputation: 7

How to parse this string by strptime

Somtetimes I see date strings like this "2015-04-09T10:59:22Z". What are "T" and "Z" chars here? How to parse this string by python's time.strptime?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 909

Answers (4)

Nodak
Nodak

Reputation: 979

The other answers work and are correct, and yes, "Z" is for Zulu, the old way of referring to UTC.

The problem parsing with the standard library the string, even replacing the Z with UTC still renders a time zone naive datetime object. This is a work around I use to create a time zone aware datetime object

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
time_string = '1582-10-04T12:34:56.789Z'
timeformat = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ'
datetime.strptime(time_string, timeformat).replace(tzinfo=(timezone(timedelta(0))))
# or in your case
time_string = '2015-04-09T10:59:22Z'
timeformat = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'  # No microseconds
datetime.strptime(time_string, timeformat).replace(tzinfo=(timezone(timedelta(0))))

Upvotes: 0

Marcus Müller
Marcus Müller

Reputation: 36482

strptime has excellent documentation in its man page (man strptime) and on python.org.

You'll have to tell us what the extra characters mean, because we don't know where the string comes from. However, assuming T and Z don't mean anything special:

time.strptime(your_date, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z')

should do the trick.

EDIT: The Z is a timezone abbreviation; hence the trailing %Z.

EDIT2: ah if python's strptime just understood %Z. You'll have to ignore it as constant (means UTC, if I'm not totally mistaken)

time.strptime(your_date, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')

EDIT3: Zulu time, as I've learned.

Upvotes: 1

Joran Beasley
Joran Beasley

Reputation: 114068

from dateutil.parser import parse as date_parse
print date_parse("2015-04-09T10:59:22Z")

it doesnt use strptime ... but you dont need to worry about the date format pretty much ever

(oh yeah you may need pip install python-dateutil ) :P

Upvotes: 1

Julien Spronck
Julien Spronck

Reputation: 15433

astr = "2015-04-09T10:59:22Z"
time.strptime(astr, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
## returns time.struct_time(tm_year=2015, tm_mon=4, tm_mday=9, tm_hour=10, tm_min=59, tm_sec=22, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=99, tm_isdst=-1)

Upvotes: 1

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