Going from twitter date to Python datetime date

Question

I am receiving twitter messages that are sent at a certain date in the following format from twitter:

Tue Mar 29 08:11:25 +0000 2011

I want

Answer 1

The following code will print a nice date (local time) from a Twitter date (UTC).

from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timezone    

datetime.strptime(mydata["created_at"], '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y').replace(
            tzinfo=timezone.utc).astimezone(tz=None).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))