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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Jacob Perkins
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Timezone lookup and conversion

Most datetime objects returned from the dateutil parser are naïve, meaning they don't have an explicit tzinfo, which specifies the timezone and UTC offset. In the previous recipe, only one of the examples had a tzinfo, and that's because it's in the standard ISO format for UTC datetime strings. UTC is the coordinated universal time, and is basically the same as GMT. ISO is the International Standards Organization, which among other things, specifies standard datetime formatting.

Python datetime objects can either be naïve or aware. If a datetime object has a tzinfo, then it is aware. Otherwise, the datetime is naïve. To make a naïve datetime object timezone aware, you must give it an explicit tzinfo. However, the ...

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