def toDate2(date): import time,datetime dates = time.strptime(date,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00") dt = datetime.datetime(dates[0],dates[1],dates[2],dates[3],dates[4],dates[5],dates[6])+datetime.timedelta(hours=9) return dt if __name__ == "__main__": import datetime date = "2008-02-24T06:39:37+00:00" print toDate2(date) print datetime.datetime.today()