Question

I have a Django app with a model that contains a field of type DateTimeField.
I am pulling data from the web in the format of 2008-04-10 11:47:58-05.
I believe that the last 3 characters in this example are the timezone.
How can I preserve that data in the DateTimeField, and is there an easy conversion between the two? Setting the DateTimeField to simply contain a string of the above format throws a ValidationError.

Thank you!

Answer 1

You can use

import dateutil.parser
dateutil.parser.parse('2008-04-10 11:47:58-05')

Which returns a datetime (that can be assigned to the DateTimeField).