I got a string date
date = '2014-12-18T19:00:00-07:00'
But I have no idea how to save this to models.DateTimeField( null=True,blank=True)
Please help me how to convert this sting to datetime object Thank you very much
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do you care about the timezone?Rafael Barros– Rafael Barros2014-12-16 01:27:57 +00:00Commented Dec 16, 2014 at 1:27
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yes,I want to change to UTCuser2492364– user24923642014-12-16 01:28:23 +00:00Commented Dec 16, 2014 at 1:28
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Traditionally, see https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.strptime
# %z is supported in Python 3.2 onwards. Older versions of python don't support that.
from datetime import datetime
date = '2014-12-18T19:00:00-07:00'
format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"
datetime_obj = datetime.strptime(date, format)
print datetime_obj.strftime(format)
Alternatively, because you have an iso8601 sting format already, someone already wrote a parser for that. See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil/1.5
import dateutil.parser
date = '2014-12-18T19:00:00-07:00'
datetime_obj = dateutil.parser.parse(date)
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user2492364
Thank you so much! It's very clearly.I have a question,is
datetime_obj a UTC time???
rurouni88
It is, but you can convert it to a timestamp in your TZ via 'datetime.astimezone(tz)' You can set it via the constructor too, but in this particular case, you're not instantiating a DT Object from the constructor call. You're parsing an iso8601 string to DT object.
import datetime
format = "%Y-%m-%d %I:%M%p" # the format your input date is in
date_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, format)
