John Miller

Prior discussion: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/strip-comments/issues/8 (I'm not sure what happened to this change, it seems like it might not have been merged (?))

Here is where the discussion continued: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/strip-comments/pull/10 & https://github.com/jonschlinkert/strip-comments/pull/11

With regard to workarounds, let me share the preprocessing solution that I am using successfully as a generic workaround: ```python import re preprocessed_datetime_str = re.sub(r'(?:GMT|UTC)([+\-]\d+)', r'\1', datetime_str) dt = dateutil.parser.parse(preprocessed_datetime_str)...

Thank you for taking this up @remusao, I apologize for abandoning this original one. I will archive this repo and redirect people to your copy :+1: .

Thank you @da0ka, nice catch. I will review for any other potential typos too and fix.

Thank you @macmcmeans, you're correct. I have unfortunately grossly neglected this library, including neglecting this flaw. Your message has reminded me of it. I am going to mark the repository...

I apologize for these flaws @alexandervlpl. I have grossly neglected this library over the years.