[Python-ideas] Parsing ISO 8601 with the standard library

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Can you show or point us to some examples of the types of dates that
> cannot be parsed? Do you happen to have the specification for those?


This is a known limitation. We don't have an strftime code for TZ in hh:mm
format.  GNU date uses ':z' for this.

See http://bugs.python.org/issue5207
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