Facebook timestamp for 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 regular Python DateTime object.

Answer 1

Have you tried dateutil

It is extremely easy to use.

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

dateutil very useful for processing timezone information, and it can handle many time formats.

Answer 2

 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])