Feature Request: string -> ZonedDateTime

[JonathanAnderson]

I am looking to parse a string into a ZonedDateTime

For example I would like to parse "2015-08-06T22:25:31+07:00" into a ZonedDateTime(DateTime(2015,08,06,22,25,31), FixedTimeZone("+07:00"))

I think a reasonable method would be to define a new dateformat so that ZonedDateTime("2015-08-06T22:25:31+07:00", some_dateformat) would work but I am still working to understand how 'timezones/io.jl' is working.

Still, I figured I would put up my request for now since I think it would be useful.

[iamed2]

I think this is the format you're looking for:

ZonedDateTime("2015-08-06T22:25:31+07:00", "yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SSzzzz")

These things should be documented though. Perhaps at some point we can get a function like Python's dateutil's parse, which makes a best-guess parsing.

[omus]

@iamed2 is correct. The ZonedDateTime parsing works using the same methods that DateTime provides. Eventually I'm planning on getting a more dynamic version of string parsing included. That may or may not be included in the TimeZones.jl package.

[JonathanAnderson]

Since this works I'll close the issue =)