datetime - Parse CEST/CET time in python

Question

I have these date strings:

Fri Oct  7 16:00:09 CEST 2011

I want to convert them to UTC. I have tried with this implementation:

def LocalToUtc(localtime):
    return datetime.strptime(localtime, "%a %m %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y").isoformat() + 'Z'

But I get a ValueError:

ValueError: time data 'Fri Oct  7 16:00:09 CEST 2011' does not match format '%a %m %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Use the parsedatetime library.