How can I add exact 'N Minutes' to GMT Time Value & get in Python?

Question

I have Date Value as below:

Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:04:47 GMT

I need to add exact '5 Minutes' to above timestamp & get below "ISO8601 Date" value:

date_time_value = "2015-03-31T05:09:47.928187755Z"

How can I get this calculation performed in python?

Parse the value (`datetime.strptime`), add 5 minutes (`timedelta`) and print it out again. — plaes, Mar 31 '15 at 11:03

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

Parse the input time string into a datetime object using an answer from Python: parsing date with timezone from an email
parsed_datetime += timedelta(minutes=5)
Use datetime.isoformat() method to get the result date_time_value string (for a naive datetime object; add Z at the end yourself if you know that the input is in UTC or (better) use an answer that produces timezone-aware datetime objects).

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