Facebook timestamp to Python DateTime Object

Question

Facebook returns 'created_time' in this format:

2012-07-23T08:52:04+0000

I want to convert this timestamp to a normal Python DateTime object.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '12 at 11:51

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Have you tried dateutil

It's extremely easy to use

import dateutil.parser as dateparser
dateparser.parse('2012-07-23T08:52:04+0000')

dateutil is very helpful to deal with timezone info, and it can handle lots of time formats.

answered Jul 28 '12 at 11:51

xiaowl

Discussion on using dateutil in python2: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1101508/how-to-parse-dates-with-0400-timezone-string-in-python – Vladimir Jul 28 '12 at 11:59

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '12 at 11:52

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s = "2005-12-06T12:13:14"
from datetime import datetime
from time import strptime
print datetime(*strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")[0:6])

answered Jul 28 '12 at 11:52

Danil Speransky

2 Answers2