Use dateutil to parse datetimes

This solves the problem of various servers returning differently
formatted datetimes.

issue #523

tests/test_utils.py

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+from datetime import datetime
 import click
 import pytest
 import sys
 
 from toot.cli.validators import validate_duration
+from toot.utils.datetime import parse_datetime
 from toot.wcstring import wc_wrap, trunc, pad, fit_text
 from toot.tui.utils import LRUCache
 from PIL import Image
@@ -331,3 +333,37 @@ def test_batched():
 
     with pytest.raises(ValueError):
         list(batched("foo", 0))
+
+
+def test_parse_datetime():
+    # mastodon uses this format
+    dt = parse_datetime("2023-07-21T13:27:45.996+00:00")
+    assert dt_tuple(dt) == (2023, 7, 21, 13, 27, 45, 0)
+
+    dt = parse_datetime("2023-07-21T13:27:45.996+01:00")
+    assert dt_tuple(dt) == (2023, 7, 21, 12, 27, 45, 0)
+
+    dt = parse_datetime("2023-07-21T13:27:45.996-06:00")
+    assert dt_tuple(dt) == (2023, 7, 21, 19, 27, 45, 0)
+
+    # snac2 uses this format
+    dt = parse_datetime("2023-12-29T09:22:15Z")
+    assert dt_tuple(dt) == (2023, 12, 29, 9, 22, 15, 0)
+
+
+def dt_tuple(dt: datetime):
+    assert isinstance(dt, datetime)
+
+    # Parsing should create an aware datetime object
+    offset = dt.utcoffset()
+    assert offset is not None
+
+    return (
+        dt.year,
+        dt.month,
+        dt.day,
+        dt.hour,
+        dt.minute,
+        dt.second,
+        offset.total_seconds()
+    )

toot/utils/datetime.py

@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ import math
 import os
 
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from dateutil.parser import parse
 
 
 def parse_datetime(value: str) -> datetime:
     """Returns an aware datetime in local timezone"""
-    dttm = datetime.strptime(value, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z")
+    dttm = parse(value)
 
     # When running tests return datetime in UTC so that tests don't depend on
     # the local timezone