How to preserve timezone when parsing date/time strings with strptime()?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3305...

Question links:
[this page]: http://www.enricozini.org/2009/debian/us.../
[here]: http://docs.python.org/library/datetime....

Accepted answer links:
[datetime]: http://docs.python.org/library/datetime....

Answer 2 links:
[python-dateutil]: http://labix.org/python-dateutil

Answer 4 links:
[rfc 2822 (date format in email, http headers)]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.h...
[parsing date with timezone from an email]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23117071/427...
[EST]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.h...
[a timezone abbreviation is not enough, to identify a timezone uniquely]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1703546/4279

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