Date time parsing issue

[wklogoo]

Currently, the UTC date time in a GPX file is not parsed with UTC time zone.

A suggestion is to use the python-dateutil and replace the current parsing approach with dateutil.parser.

import dateutil.parser

def datetime_iso(string): """Parse an ISO formatted string. E.g: 2006-01-08T06:45:07Z Modified by W. K. Lo 2016-06-09

Return a datetime object.
"""
dt = dateutil.parser.parse(string)
return dt

Hope this fit with other parts well!

Regards, wklogoo

[wklogoo]

Sorry, I am new to GitHub. Not familiar with the formatting effect (and the preview button) of the text in the post.

This is a really nice piece of gpx module for python!

== repost for easy viewing ==

Currently, the UTC date time in a GPX file is not parsed with UTC time zone.

A suggestion is to use the python-dateutil and replace the current parsing approach with dateutil.parser.

import dateutil.parser

def datetime_iso(string):
 """Parse an ISO formatted string. E.g:
 2006-01-08T06:45:07Z
 Modified by W. K. Lo 2016-06-09
Return a datetime object.
"""
dt = dateutil.parser.parse(string)
return dt

Hope this fit with other parts well!

Regards, wklogoo

[fxdgear]

@wklogoo

Thanks for the suggestion.

Can you create a PR? If you need help on how to do that let me know.

Thanks

[wklogoo]

What is a PR? Please suggest some online materials for reference on the operation process of GitHub. Thx.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Nick Lang [email protected] wrote:

@wklogoo https://github.com/wklogoo

Thanks for the suggestion.

Can you create a PR? If you need help on how to do that let me know.

Thanks

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Regards, W. K. Lo

[fxdgear]

PR = pull request.

You can fork this repo under your namespace. Create the change you want. Commit it to your repo.

Then you can create a PR from you're fork onto my repo.

Then I can review and submit feedback/accept it.

And merge your change set in to this Repo.

[mr337]

@wklogoo https://www.thinkful.com/learn/github-pull-request-tutorial/ might help!