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How i convert email receiving date to date and time

Email receiving date is

2022-01-22 10:01:02

Date extract from email header it show:

2022-01-22 03:01:02-06:00

I need help to convert email header date 2022-01-22 03:01:02-06:00 to datetime.datetime(2022, 01, 22, 10, 01, 02, tzinfo=<UTC>)

Solution

  • datetime.datetime.fromisoformat() works, so no need to define your own .strptime. Just do the timezone conversion after the datetime object is created:

    import datetime

s = "2022-01-22 03:01:02-06:00"

dt = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(s).astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc)
print(dt)