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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

python timestamp conversion

I had problem taking an RSS feed date and dropping it into a database.
This put together by Dave Warry for me:

from datetime import datetime # I love classes named after their parent module

original_date = "Thu, Apr 15 2010 08:14:15 GMT"

# formatting/parsing details are in here:
# http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior
dt = datetime.strptime(original_date, "%a, %b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %Z")

desired_date = dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

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