How to parse date time properly? [closed]-CodePudding

I'm having an issue parsing dates in python and I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong. I looked at a bunch of tutorials and I think I'm positively lost.

Here is what im trying to parse and the error that I am getting: the code:

when = datetime.datetime.strptime(dateOfBirth, " %Y-%m-%dT%I:%M:%S")

the error:

time data ' 1909-04-01T00:00:00Z' does not match format ' %Y-%m-%dT%I:%M:%S'

CodePudding user response：

This is how it should be formatted:

when = datetime.datetime.strptime(dateOfBirth,' %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')

CodePudding user response：

This works, and keeps the timezone.

when = datetime.datetime.strptime(dateOfBirth, " %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")