Js Date object to python datetime
Solution 1
toUTCString() gives:
"Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT"
And that's parsible with:
datetime.strptime("Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT", "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z")
Solution 2
It looks like you are getting something like an ordinary javascript Date object. In this case, the easiest method is probably to use the getTime
method to obtain a timestamp. It should return something like 1321463229215
, which is just a timestamp in milliseconds.
datetime's fromtimestamp
expects a timestamp in seconds, so just divide that timestamp by 1000.0 and you're good to go
from datetime import datetime
datetime.fromtimestamp(1321463229215 / 1000.0)
Solution 3
Try using python-dateutil (pip install python-dateutil)
import dateutil.parser as dt
date_time_obj = dt.parse("Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT")
date_time_obj will be a datetime object
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TheOne almost 2 years
I am working with dhtmlxscheduler and I am sending dates to the django server for processing.
Dhtmlxscheduler provides me with the following date object, the methods provided start from the second line below:
end_date: Sat Nov 19 2011 01:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST) __proto__: Invalid Date constructor: function Date() { [native code] } getDate: function getDate() { [native code] } getDay: function getDay() { [native code] } getFullYear: function getFullYear() { [native code] } getHours: function getHours() { [native code] } getMilliseconds: function getMilliseconds() { [native code] } getMinutes: function getMinutes() { [native code] } getMonth: function getMonth() { [native code] } getSeconds: function getSeconds() { [native code] } getTime: function getTime() { [native code] } getTimezoneOffset: function getTimezoneOffset() { [native code] } getUTCDate: function getUTCDate() { [native code] } getUTCDay: function getUTCDay() { [native code] } getUTCFullYear: function getUTCFullYear() { [native code] } getUTCHours: function getUTCHours() { [native code] } getUTCMilliseconds: function getUTCMilliseconds() { [native code] } getUTCMinutes: function getUTCMinutes() { [native code] } getUTCMonth: function getUTCMonth() { [native code] } getUTCSeconds: function getUTCSeconds() { [native code] } getYear: function getYear() { [native code] } setDate: function setDate() { [native code] } setFullYear: function setFullYear() { [native code] } setHours: function setHours() { [native code] } setMilliseconds: function setMilliseconds() { [native code] } setMinutes: function setMinutes() { [native code] } setMonth: function setMonth() { [native code] } setSeconds: function setSeconds() { [native code] } setTime: function setTime() { [native code] } setUTCDate: function setUTCDate() { [native code] } setUTCFullYear: function setUTCFullYear() { [native code] } setUTCHours: function setUTCHours() { [native code] } setUTCMilliseconds: function setUTCMilliseconds() { [native code] } setUTCMinutes: function setUTCMinutes() { [native code] } setUTCMonth: function setUTCMonth() { [native code] } setUTCSeconds: function setUTCSeconds() { [native code] } setYear: function setYear() { [native code] } toDateString: function toDateString() { [native code] } toGMTString: function toGMTString() { [native code] } toISOString: function toISOString() { [native code] } toJSON: function toJSON() { [native code] } toLocaleDateString: function toLocaleDateString() { [native code] } toLocaleString: function toLocaleString() { [native code] } toLocaleTimeString: function toLocaleTimeString() { [native code] } toString: function toString() { [native code] } toTimeString: function toTimeString() { [native code] } toUTCString: function toUTCString() { [native code] } valueOf: function valueOf() { [native code] } __proto__: Object
What is the easiest method for choosing one of these toString methods and then parsing it on the python server side using datetime.strptime() to create a python datetime object?
The simple toString method returns me a datetime in the format:
Sat Nov 19 2011 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST)
Trying the different format directives proves unsuccessful.
ie:
datetime.strptime("Sat Nov 19 2011 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST)", "%a %b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %Z") ---> unconverted data remains: -0500 (EST)
and:
datetime.strptime("Sat Nov 19 2011 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST)", "%a %b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %z") ---> ValueError: 'z' is a bad directive in format '%a %b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %z'