title: How to parse date time properly?
body: <p>I'm having an issue parsing dates in python and I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong. I looked at a bunch of tutorials and I think I'm positively lost.</p>
  <p>Here is what im trying to parse and the error that I am getting:
  the code:</p>
  <pre><code>when = datetime.datetime.strptime(dateOfBirth, &quot;+%Y-%m-%dT%I:%M:%S&quot;)
  </code></pre>
  <p>the error:</p>
  <pre><code>time data '+1909-04-01T00:00:00Z' does not match format '+%Y-%m-%dT%I:%M:%S'
  </code></pre>