Not able to parse javascript's ISO string format

[SIlver--]

Using JavaScript's toISOString() does not parse correctly. The method returns a string in simplified extended ISO 8601 format..

Example of the code,

>>> import parsedatetime.parsedatetime as pdt
>>> cal = pdt.Calendar()
>>> cal.parse('2016-05-07T07:52:00.000Z')
((2016, 5, 6, 20, 16, 0, 4, 127, 0), 2)

[idpaterson]

Thanks for reporting, this problem has already been identified in #15 and time zones are discussed in #97.

[SIlver--]

Yes but if you do

cal.parse('2016-05-07 07:52:00.000Z')
((2016, 5, 7, 20, 16, 0, 4, 127, 0), 2)

is the result. It's not the timezone that's the issue but the T between the date and time.

[bear]

right, we (meaning I) built in only a limited support for ISO 8601 dates so the T and the Z confuse the code. It is something we could probably fix but it would require adding timezone aware code to everything so we haven't yet.

this has always been a case where I suggest that people scan the code for TZ aware ISO 8601 dates before calling PDT

[SIlver--]

Ah sorry 😓 I see now where you mention it in #97.

[bear]

no worries - only those of us who have been dealing with this stuff for years have it all memorized - hell, even I forget most of it now and depend on folks like the amazing @idpaterson to remind me