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.. versionchanged:: 3.7
The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ When the ``%z`` directive is provided to the :meth:`strptime` method,
+ the UTC offsets can have a colon as a separator between hours, minutes
+ and seconds.
+ For example, ``'+01:00:00'`` will be parsed as an offset of one hour.
+ In addition, providing ``'Z'`` is identical to ``'+00:00'``.
+
``%Z``
If :meth:`tzname` returns ``None``, ``%Z`` is replaced by an empty
string. Otherwise ``%Z`` is replaced by the returned value, which must