I am trying to parse a simple date-time string in EDT timezone to a datetime object using strptime; however, it runs into an error:
from datetime import datetime
datetime.strptime('2022-05-22 15:02:48 EDT', "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z")
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ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
C:\..../1902312626.py in <module>
----> 1 datetime.strptime('2022-05-22 15:02:48 EDT', "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z")
~\....\_strptime.py in _strptime_datetime(cls, data_string, format)
566 """Return a class cls instance based on the input string and the
567 format string."""
--> 568 tt, fraction, gmtoff_fraction = _strptime(data_string, format)
569 tzname, gmtoff = tt[-2:]
570 args = tt[:6] + (fraction,)
~\....\_strptime.py in _strptime(data_string, format)
347 found = format_regex.match(data_string)
348 if not found:
--> 349 raise ValueError("time data %r does not match format %r" %
350 (data_string, format))
351 if len(data_string) != found.end():
ValueError: time data '2022-05-22 15:02:48 EDT' does not match format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'
But if I change the timezone to UTC, the error disappears.