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How do I parse an ISO 8601-formatted date?

I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this?
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How do I translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object?

I'm getting a datetime string in a format like "2009-05-28T16:15:00" (this is ISO 8601, I believe). One hackish option seems to be to parse the string using time.strptime and passing the first six elements of the tuple into the datetime constructor,…
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How can I parse a time string containing milliseconds in it with python?

I am able to parse strings containing date/time with time.strptime >>> import time >>> time.strptime('30/03/09 16:31:32', '%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S') (2009, 3, 30, 16, 31, 32, 0, 89, -1) How can I parse a time string that contains milliseconds? >>>…
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How to create a .NET DateTime from ISO 8601 format

I've found how to turn a DateTime into an ISO 8601 format, but nothing on how to do the reverse in C#. I have 2010-08-20T15:00:00Z, and I want to turn it into a DateTime object. I could separate the parts of the string myself, but that seems like a…
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Parse rfc3339 date strings in Python?

I have a datasets where all the dates have the following format: 2012-10-09T19:00:55Z I'd like to be able to be able to use methods like .weekday on them. How do I convert them to the proper format in Python?
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Parse DateTime string in JavaScript

Does anyone know how to parse date string in required format dd.mm.yyyy?
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Parsing time string in Python

I have a date time string that I don't know how to parse it in Python. The string is like this: Tue May 08 15:14:45 +0800 2012 I tried datetime.strptime("Tue May 08 15:14:45 +0800 2012","%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y") but Python raises 'z' is a bad…
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How to parse a date string into a c++11 std::chrono time_point or similar?

Consider a historic date string of format: Thu Jan 9 12:35:34 2014 I want to parse such a string into some kind of C++ date representation, then calculate the amount of time that has passed since then. From the resulting duration I need access to…
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Java 8 Date and Time: parse ISO 8601 string without colon in offset

We try to parse the following ISO 8601 DateTime String with timezone offset: final String input = "2022-03-17T23:00:00.000+0000"; OffsetDateTime.parse(input); LocalDateTime.parse(input, DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME); Both approaches fail…
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Natural/Relative days in Python

I'd like a way to show natural times for dated items in Python. Similar to how Twitter will show a message from "a moment ago", "a few minutes ago", "two hours ago", "three days ago", etc. Django 1.0 has a "humanize" method in django.contrib. I'm…
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JSR-310 - parsing seconds fraction with variable length

Is there a way how to create JSR-310 formatter that is able to parse both following date/times with variable length of seconds fraction? 2015-05-07 13:20:22.276052 or 2015-05-07 13:20:22.276 Example code: DateTimeFormatter formatter = new…
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Java 8 DateTimeFormatter parsing for optional fractional seconds of varying significance

My MCVE (as a TestNG unit test): public class MyDateTimeFormatterTest { private static final String BASE_PATTERN = "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"; private static final DateTimeFormatter FORMATTER = …
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How to parse date-time with two or three milliseconds digits in java?

Here is my method to parse String into LocalDateTime. public static String formatDate(final String date) { DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SS"); LocalDateTime formatDateTime =…
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Parse 'Date & Time' string in Javascript which are of custom format

I have to parse a date and time string of format "2015-01-16 22:15:00". I want to parse this into JavaScript Date Object. Any help on this? I tried some jquery plugins, moment.js, date.js, xdate.js. Still no luck.
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SimpleDateFormat producing wrong date time when parsing "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm"

I am trying to parse a String (YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm) to Date, however getting wrong date than expected. CODE: Date newDate = null; String dateTime = "2013-03-18 08:30"; SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm",…
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