How can I convert a timestamp string with timezone offset to local time?

Question

I am trying to convert a string timestamp into a proper datetime object. The problem I am having is that there is a timezone offset and everything I am doing doesn\'t seem to wo

Answer 1

The dateutil package is handy for parsing date/times:

In [10]: date = u"Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:08:23 -0700"

In [11]: from dateutil.parser import parse

In [12]: parse(date)
Out[12]: datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 16, 7, 8, 23, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -25200))

Finally, to convert into your local timezone,

In [13]: parse(date).astimezone(YOUR_LOCAL_TIMEZONE)