Timezone check checks both for numerical and letter specification

[fnielsen]

I do not understand the timezone check (and furthermore, when the data only exists as a date, then I suppose I need to invent a timezone...). Here is the error:

11/22/2019 01:02:15 ERROR: Missing timezone as string from meta date: Fri Nov 22 00:49:17 2019 +0100

Obviously it should matches "matcher_z = re.compile("[+-]\d{4}") # tz offset" but why should it then also match "matcher_Z = re.compile("[A-Z]{3}") # tz name". The format is "%c %z" not "%c %Z %z".

[hvingelby]

I agree. There is a mismatch between the validator and the guidelines that says %c %z.

[JensMadsen]

Why not use UTC ISO 8601? No confusion and supported in all languages out of the box with no coding necessary. In Python you get an ISO formatted datetime string by:

iso_format_datetime_string: str = datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat() 

To check if a datetime string is correct isoformat do:

try:
    iso_format_datetime = datetime.fromisoformat(iso_format_datetime_string: str)  
except ValueError:
    print('time to handle error :-) ')