[Tutor] How to compare dates which has (,)

[Danny Yoo]

> but I am not understanding how do i capture and compare dates in bellow
> formate (,) :
> <Mar 4, 2016 5:38:58 AM BRT>

Do you know the name or structure of the format that you're seeing here?  I
would assume BRT represents some timezone, but I am not sure.  Let me
check...

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/brt

OK, so yes, that's the Brasilia time zone.

You should be able to use the date time libraries to parse the string.
https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

The resulting values should be comparable, if I recall correctly.  Yes,
https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#datetime-objects notes that
the datetime objects support comparison.

I'm away from a keyboard at the moment, so I can't write an example right
now.

If you can convince whoever is generating those timestamps to use something
like ISO 8601 format, then that might also be nice.

Good luck!