Python datetime strptime does not match format

This is the code I’m going to run

from datetime import datetime

date="08/30/2017 10:02 pm (PDT)"

dt = datetime.strptime(date, '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p (%Z)')

The date is a string with the value 08/30/2017 10:02 PM (PDT).

I look fine, but python gives me this error :

time data '08/30/2017 10:02 PM (PDT)' does not match format '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p (%Z)' 

The code runs on a remote machine with Python 2.7 installed. However, if I manually type these codes into the local python terminal. It works perfectly.

Is there anything that can be changed?
(I tried to change the date between unicode/str, no difference)

Check the value of the TZ environment variable. time.strptime uses the TZ variable to disambiguate time zone abbreviations, otherwise they would not be unique. I can reproduce the matching error using TZ=Europe/Berlin, but it resolves successfully using TZ=America/Tijuana.

Another source of discrepancies that can occur if another machine has TZ data that uses only numeric time zones, which is a recent change (2017) in some time zones (this also means that the machine on which it works will have an outdated timezone database).