Re: How to get the time zone of a parsed date/time string?
Re: How to get the time zone of a parsed date/time string?
- Subject: Re: How to get the time zone of a parsed date/time string?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:27:29 -0700
> On Jul 30, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Chuck Soper <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Your date string does not have a time zone. These internet date strings
> are always in UTC. Your string has a GMT offset.
OK, then my terminology was inaccurate. I am trying to get the GMT offset.
(And it’s not true that date/time strings are always in UTC. ISO8601 is, yes. But older formats like RFC822 often use time-zone names.)
> You could parse "-0700"
> to determine the GMT offset. It starts with a '+' or '-' followed by 2
> digits for hours, then 2 digits for minutes.
As I keep saying, I want to avoid if possible a solution that involves manually scraping the string. I have done it before, and it sucks, especially if you have to support large numbers of different date/time formats and variants thereof. (The date parser in Apple’s RSS/Atom engine ended up with something like 20 different format strings.)
> The following code will parse your time date string.
I already know how to parse the string, thanks.
—Jens
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