From: Tony Mack <tmack@paris.CS.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:17:25 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: merge from jktest7
X-Git-Tag: sfa-1.0-9~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0d9988520909b74d702b05a9ce63a36e7e41e2f1;p=sfa.git

merge from jktest7
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diff --git a/sfa/util/sfatime.py b/sfa/util/sfatime.py
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index 00000000..901b4e0d
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+++ b/sfa/util/sfatime.py
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+import dateutil.parser
+
+def utcparse(str):
+    """ Translate a string into a time using dateutil.parser.parse but make sure it's in UTC time and strip
+    the timezone, so that it's compatible with normal datetime.datetime objects"""
+    
+    t = dateutil.parser.parse(str)
+    if not t.utcoffset() is None:
+        t = t.utcoffset() + t.replace(tzinfo=None)
+    return t