Going from twitter date to Python datetime date
Writing something like this should convert a twitter date to a timestamp.
import timets = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.strptime(tweet['created_at'],'%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y'))
UPDATE
For Python 3, as per 2020, you can do it in this way:
from datetime import datetime# dtime = tweet['created_at']dtime = 'Fri Oct 09 10:01:41 +0000 2015'new_datetime = datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime(dtime,'%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y'), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')print((new_datetime))
Give this a go. It assumes the date format from twitter is RFC822 compliant (see the question linked to by @Adrien).
A naive datetime object is constructed (i.e. no timezone info). It is adjusted according to the timezone offset to UTC. Unless you have a need to keep the original timezone, I'd store the date time as UTC and format to local time when you display it.
from datetime import datetime, timedeltafrom email.utils import parsedate_tzs = 'Tue Mar 29 08:11:25 +0000 2011'def to_datetime(datestring): time_tuple = parsedate_tz(datestring.strip()) dt = datetime(*time_tuple[:6]) return dt - timedelta(seconds=time_tuple[-1])