I have a series of fastq files (with up to 4000 reads in each) that I want to parse based on the time of sequencing.

So in the fastq header, date/time is listed as "start_time=2017-10-09T18:54:24z"

If I wanted to extract all sequences between 18:00 hours and 20:00 hours, is there a tool I can use to find and extract them?
I wrote a python script now.

Execute as 
`python timefilt.py part1.fastq.gz --time_from 2017-10-09T18:00:00Z --time_to 2017-10-09T20:00:00Z`


https://gist.github.com/wdecoster/1ab9adac7c8095498ff91ee22468eaac