Converting string to datetime object
To parse the date in RFC 2822 format, you could use email package: from datetime import datetime, timedelta from email.utils import parsedate_tz, mktime_tz timestamp = mktime_tz(parsedate_tz(“Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:16:17 EDT”)) # -> 1413436577 utc_dt = datetime(1970, 1, 1) + timedelta(seconds=timestamp) # -> datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 16, 5, 16, 17) Note: parsedate_tz() assumes that EDT corresponds … Read more