R. David Murray added the comment: The code is shared by the two modules (it's in _strptime.py). So, yes. There is clearly a doc bug here (%Z needs a footnote in the table in the datetime docs), but there is no practical way to implement the parsing of arbitrary (non-locale) timezone strings, since it is not a one-to-one mapping. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, r.david.murray versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25963> _______________________________________