Parsing date/time string with timezone abbreviated name in Python?
date, python, timezone
Solution
That probably won't work because those abbreviations aren't unique. See this page for details. You might wind up just having to manually handle it yourself if you're working with a known set of inputs.
Problem
I'm trying to parse timestamp strings like `"Sat, 11/01/09 8:00PM EST"` in Python, but I'm having trouble finding a solution that will handle the abbreviated timezone. I'm using `dateutil`'s `parse()` function, but it doesn't parse the timezone. Is there an easy way to do this?