How to parse string dates with 2-digit year?

Question

I need to parse strings representing 6-digit dates in the format yymmdd where yy ranges from 59 to 05 (1959 to 2005). According to the time module

Answer 1

Prepend the century to your date using your own pivot:

  year = int(date[0:2])
  if 59 <= year <= 99:
      date = '19' + date
  else
      date = '20' + date

and then use strptime with the %Y directive instead of %y.