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pyiso8601

Pyiso8601 is a project mainly written in Python, based on the MIT license.

A small python library for parsing datetime strings. Fork of a Google Code svn repo.

A simple package to deal with ISO 8601 date time formats.

ISO 8601 defines a neutral, unambiguous date string format, which also has the property of sorting naturally.

e.g. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ or 2007-01-25T12:00:00Z

Currently this covers only the most common date formats encountered, not all of ISO 8601 is handled.

Currently the following formats are handled:

  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00[+-]00:00

I'll add more as I encounter them in my day to day life. Patches with new formats and tests will be gratefully accepted of course :)

References:

  • http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html - simple overview

  • http://hydracen.com/dx/iso8601.htm - more detailed enumeration of valid formats.

See the LICENSE file for the license this package is released under.

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