<p>For example, I'm trying to convert 2008-09-26T01:51:42.000Z to 09/26/2008. What's the simplest way of accomplishing this?</p>

```
```
>>> import time
>>> timestamp = "2008-09-26T01:51:42.000Z"
>>> ts = time.strptime(timestamp[:19], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
>>> time.strftime("%m/%d/%Y", ts)
'09/26/2008'
```
```
See the documentation of the Python
```
time
```
module for more information.