4 from sfa.util.sfalogging import logger
7 """ Translate a string into a time using dateutil.parser.parse but make sure it's in UTC time and strip
8 the timezone, so that it's compatible with normal datetime.datetime objects"""
10 if isinstance (string, datetime.datetime):
11 logger.warn ("argument to utcparse already a datetime - doing nothing")
13 t = dateutil.parser.parse(string)
14 if t.utcoffset() is not None:
15 t = t.utcoffset() + t.replace(tzinfo=None)