Feedparser and dates

[friis]

I'm using FeedParser.org to import feeds into our MySQL database.
Our problem is that we haven't found a solution to translate the date
of a post item into GMT.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jacob

[Fredrik Lundh]

"friis" wrote:

I'm using FeedParser.org to import feeds into our MySQL database.
Our problem is that we haven't found a solution to translate the date
of a post item into GMT.

from what I can tell, feedparser returns a 9-item UTC time tuple (which
is the same thing as GMT, at least for all practical purposes).

if it's a standard timestamp you want, you can use calendar.timegm:

t = (2004, 1, 1, 19, 48, 21, 3, 1, 0)
import calendar
calendar.timegm(t) 1072986501 import time, datetime
time.asctime(time.gmtime(calendar.timegm(t))) 'Thu Jan 01 19:48:21 2004' datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(calendar.timegm (t))

datetime.datetime(2004, 1, 1, 19, 48, 21)

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