[issue17342] datetime.strptime does not implement %z

2013-06-07 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Python 2.x is in maintenance mode and will not receive new features. In 3.x this is already implemented: Python 3.3.2 (default, May 24 2013, 22:46:58) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or

[issue17342] datetime.strptime does not implement %z

2013-03-03 Thread Zbyněk Winkler
New submission from Zbyněk Winkler: According to http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior the %z directive is used to specify the timezone offset of the form +HHMM or -HHMM. However it is not implemented in datetime.strptime. I'd prefer to have %z available i