@OliverSalzburg any idea how to parse a datetime like this: '1989-01-01T00:00:00+02:00'

@IvoFlipse In Cobol?

preferably :P

:D

Seriously though, what language? A generic algorithm would be asking a bit much

Python

Actually the only problem I'm having is with the +02:00 the time zone offset

Looks like a standard ISO date string

In JS you'd just wrap in new Date()

I would expect something similar in Python

I'm using some function to create a date object from the string: datetime.datetime.strptime('1989-01-01T00:00:00+02:00',"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")

but it needs a format string, to tell it how to parse it

and that's missing something for that F-ing +02:00

I've considered simply ignoring the whole time part, but I was trying to do it "the right way"

docs.python.org/2/library/…

If it can print it, it should be able to parse it

@IvoFlipse Seems like you need %z

yeah, which seems to be deprecated

bugs.python.org/issue6641

ValueError: 'z' is a bad directive in format '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z'

For a naive object, the %z and %Z format codes are replaced by empty strings.

For an aware object:

%z
utcoffset() is transformed into a 5-character string of the form +HHMM or -HHMM, where HH is a 2-digit string giving the number of UTC offset hours, and MM is a 2-digit string giving the number of UTC offset minutes. For example, if utcoffset() returns timedelta(hours=-3, minutes=-30), %z is replaced with the string '-0330'.

%Z
If tzname() returns None, %Z is replaced by an empty string. Otherwise %Z is replaced by the returned value, which must be a string.

What about that?

Long story short: No, I have no clue :D

lol

it uses an external library

which I don't mind

but I'm doing this for a Udacity class

I'll just skip parsing that :P

its a string after all

You can't skip it, it's important :P

Depending on what you expect your result to be

lol

well actually they only care about the year

so I'm already overdoing it

Oh

Well, but maybe that's the catch

There's nice cases like this one: {1998-01-01T00:00:00+02:00|1999-01-01T00:00:00+02:00}

Know what I mean?

yeah that's what the strptime function is for

its like: interpret this string as a datetime object

I mean, it'll be a different year depending on the timezone

the regular datetime requires year, month, day

well and time obviously :P

lol I made a very hacky solution and it worked :P

I just checked if I ever got a datetime like the one above, it should check if the first char is { and if so, take date[1:5] else date[:4]

I wasted way more time on that than necessary