Parser.parse changes to wrong time zone

Question

I am using from dateutil import parser to parse an input but for some reason it is giving me back the wrong timezone.

My code: parser.parse(input_date)

Input: Tue May 01 2018 13:23:00 GMT+0200 (CEST)

Output: 2018-05-01 13:23:00-02:00

Does anybody know why the parse method changes the +2 timezone to -2?

Answer 1

Because the issue is open on github as Paul said I had to make a custom solution. I parsed the input using re and changed it from: Tue May 01 2018 13:23:00 GMT+0200 (CEST) to Tue May 01 2018 13:23:00 +0200, dateutil.parser.parse had no problem parsing this format.