strptime and timezones

[Christian Heimes]

Tom Anderson wrote:
> Secondly, do you really have to do this just to parse a date with a 
> timezone? If so, that's ridiculous.

No, you don't. :) Download the pytz package from the Python package 
index. It's *the* tool for timezone handling in Python. The time zone 
definition are not part of the Python standard library because they 
change every few of months. Stupid politicians ...

Christian