parse date string having "EDT"

[Ben Finney]

Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> writes:

> Right, because strptime doesn't support %Z.

Au contraire:

    Support for the %Z directive is based on the values contained in
    tzname and whether daylight is true. Because of this, it is
    platform-specific except for recognizing UTC and GMT which are
    always known (and are considered to be non-daylight savings timezones).

    <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime>

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