Ravi Kondamuru wrote: > Hi, > > I have a log file that prints the date and time in the following format: > Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 CST 2008 > I am expecting multiple timezone entries (eg: PST, PDT and GMT) on the > system running in America/Los Angeles time zone. > I am looking for a way to internally store all the different timezone > entries in GMT. > I looked at datetime, but it seems slightly complex to work with non GMT > timestamps. > > Any pointers? >
If you are not offended by a 3rd-party module, then the string parser included in the egenix mxDateTime module[1] is hard to beat. You may even have it installed already, as it appears to be a popular dependency of other 3rd-party modules, especially db adapters. In [1]: import mx.DateTime In [2]: d = mx.DateTime.DateFrom('Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 CST 2008') In [3]: d Out[3]: <mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2008-02-11 07:34:52.00' at b788d138> In [4]: d.strftime('%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y') Out[4]: 'Mon Feb 11 07:34:52 2008' In [5]: d = mx.DateTime.DateFrom('Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 EST 2008') In [6]: d.strftime('%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y') Out[6]: 'Mon Feb 11 06:34:52 2008' In [7]: d = mx.DateTime.DateFrom('Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 UTC 2008') In [8]: d.strftime('%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y') Out[8]: 'Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 2008' HTH, Marty [1] http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/ > thanks, > Ravi. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor