[New-bugs-announce] [issue29964] %z directive has no effect on the output of time.strptime

[Paul Pinterits]

New submission from Paul Pinterits:

%z is listed as a supported directive in the python 3 documentation (https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/time.html#time.strftime), but it doesn't actually do anything:

>>> from time import strptime
>>> strptime('+0000', '%z') == strptime('+0200', '%z')
True

As far as I can tell, there aren't any footnotes saying that %z might not be supported on some platforms, like it was back in python 2.

In case it matters, I'm using python 3.5.3 on linux.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 291041
nosy: Paul Pinterits
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: %z directive has no effect on the output of time.strptime
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5

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