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It still can’t parse ISO8601 :(

`datetime.fromisoformat()`, as of 3.7 :D

Though `dateutil` is still recommended for most cases.

That parses a subset and is only guaranteed to be compatible with Python’s “.toisoformat()”. (I imagine it would be backwards compatible to expand it to cover all of ISO8601 and I can’t tell why they haven’t.)

ISO8601 is quite large, they probably don't want to ship that big standard library modules which would parse 100% of ISO8601

Python is great, but in this case, you could get almost identical output using bash alone:

for t in {0..4100000000..100000000}; do TZ=UTC printf "%'13d - %(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T\n" $t $t; done

arrow (my favorite), pendulum or delorean are in my opinion much better (= easier to use, versatile, ...)

I found Go's quite good as well