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Posted: 3/24/2021 11:47:15 AM EDT

What format is this? "Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:34:56 -0700"

I need to parse it but can't figure out a format that starts with the day of week.

Posted: 3/24/2021 12:34:15 PM EDT

[#1]

-0700 is the time zone. It's zulu time minus 7 hours. Eastern tz is z-5, so z-7 would be mountain time zone, I think.

ETA: sorry, misunderstood the question.

Posted: 3/24/2021 12:50:42 PM EDT

[#2]

That looks like RFC 2822.

Posted: 3/24/2021 1:48:58 PM EDT

[#3]

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That looks like RFC 2822.

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Yep. Easy to parse in Python:

>>> from email.utils import parsedate
>>> parsedate('Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:34:56 -0700')
(2015, 10, 7, 12, 34, 56, 0, 1, -1)
>>>

Probably easy to parse in most other languages also.

Posted: 3/24/2021 2:02:59 PM EDT

[#4]

Yeah. I was trying to figure out the name for the format. Like if it is an ISO standard.
Turns out that python doesn't care so it doesn't matter.

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