Timezone and ISO8601 struggles with datetime and xml.utils.iso8601.parse
- From: "Samuel" <knipknap@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Sep 2005 05:29:03 -0700
Hello,
I am trying to convert a local time into UTC ISO8601, then parse it
back into local time. I tried the following:
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#!/usr/bin/python
import time
import datetime
import xml.utils.iso8601
year = 2005
month = 7
day = 22
hour = 10 # This is localtime
minute = 30
mydatetime = datetime.datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute)
strtime = mydatetime.isoformat()
print "Time: " + strtime # Localtime too
mytimestamp = xml.utils.iso8601.parse(strtime)
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How can I convert this into UTC? Commonsense would have me guess that
the date is converted into UTC on construction of the datetime object,
hovever, this doesn't seem to be the case. I also found the
astimezone(tz) method, but where can I obtain the concrete tz object?
The second problem has to do with the ISO8601 parser, which raises the
following error:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./timetest.py", line 16, in ?
mytimestamp = xml.utils.iso8601.parse(strtime)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/utils/iso8601.py",
line 22, in parse
raise ValueError, "unknown or illegal ISO-8601 date format: " + `s`
ValueError: unknown or illegal ISO-8601 date format:
'2005-07-22T10:30:00'
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Why does it fail to parse the value returned by the datetime object,
and how can I create a parseable time from the datetime object?
Thanks,
-Samuel
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