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parse date string having "EDT"

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Jun 21 00:12:34 EDT 2011 
Junaid P V <junu.pv at gmail.com> writes:

> I tried:
>
> datetime.strptime('Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y')
>
> But I get error

When reporting that you get an error, please give the full error and
traceback.


My mind reading skills are telling me, though, that you're getting a
ValueError because you're trying to parse a timezone that is unknown to
the ‘time.strptime’ function. See its documentation for why
<URL:http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime>.

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