convert time to UTC seconds since epoch

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Jul 20, 2010, at 12:26 , Alexander wrote:

> Hi, list
> 
> How with python standard library to convert string like 'YYYY-MM-DD
> mm:HH:SS ZONE' to seconds since epoch in UTC? ZONE may be literal time
> zone or given in explicit way like +0100.

If you have a sufficiently recent version of Python, have you considered time.strptime: http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime ?

HTH,
Rami

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