How to specify time zone (UTC) when converting to Unix time? (Python)

Question

I have a utc timestamp in the IS8601 format and am trying to convert it to unix time. This is my console session:

In [9]: mydate
Out[9]: \'2009-07-17T01:21:0         


        

Answer 1

I am just guessing, but one hour difference can be not because of time zones, but because of daylight savings on/off.