Re: [Translation-i18n] revision date before creation date?

[G. U. <go...@ud...>]

Benno Schulenberg writes:
> Anyone know a python function that can compare those strings 
> correctly, or convert them to some standard time format?

I believe the dateutil package gets it right:

>>> import dateutil.parser
>>> dateutil.parser.parse("2008-07-23 09:35-0500") > dateutil.parser.parse("2008-07-23 12:49+0100")
True

Dateutil is a separate module, which doesn't come bundled with Python
(http://labix.org/python-dateutil).  In Fedora for example, it's in
the package python-dateutil.