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Author r.david.murray
Recipients belopolsky, brett.cannon, docs@python, martin.panter, r.david.murray, utkonos
Date 2016-01-01.20:24:03
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The code is shared by the two modules (it's in _strptime.py).  So, yes.

There is clearly a doc bug here (%Z needs a footnote in the table in the datetime docs), but there is no practical way to implement the parsing of arbitrary (non-locale) timezone strings, since it is not a one-to-one mapping.
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