Parsing date with timezone from an email?

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I am trying to retrieve date from an email. At first it's easy:

message = email.parser.Parser().parse(file)
date = message['Date']
print date

and I receive:

'Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:32:02 +0100'

But I need a nice datetime object, so I use:

datetime.strptime('Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:32:02 +0100', '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z')

which raises ValueError, since %Z isn't format for +0100. But I can't find proper format for timezone in the documentation, there is only this %Z for zone. Can someone help me on that?

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8 Answers

For those who want to get the correct local time, here is what I did:

from datetime import datetime
from email.utils import parsedate_to_datetime

mail_time_str = 'Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:32:02 +0100'

local_time_str = datetime.fromtimestamp(parsedate_to_datetime(mail_time_str).timestamp()).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

print(local_time_str)
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