PYTHON

python time now other timezone

#as an aware datetime
from datetime import datetime, timezone

utc_dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc) # UTC time
dt = utc_dt.astimezone() # local time


#or from pytz database
import pytz

tz = pytz.timezone('Europe/Berlin')
berlin_now = datetime.now(tz)

get local timezone python

import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now()
local_now = now.astimezone()
local_tz = local_now.tzinfo
local_tzname = local_tz.tzname(local_now)
print(local_tzname)

datetime python timezone

import datetime
import pytz
my_date = datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('US/Pacific'))

python datetime with timezone

import datetime
import pytz

d = datetime.datetime.now()
timezone = pytz.timezone("America/Los_Angeles")

# List of Time Zones: https://gist.github.com/heyalexej/8bf688fd67d7199be4a1682b3eec7568
d_aware = timezone.localize(d)
d_aware.tzinfo

# One Liner
timezone.localize(datetime.datetime.now())

# Timestamp to Datetime with timezone
datetime.fromtimestamp(3456789, timezone)

python set timezone of datetime.now

my_date = datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('US/Pacific'))

python import timezone

from datetime import timezone

python print date, time and timezone

ts = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z")

python set timezone of datetime

datetime_with_timezone = datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 3, 6, 30, 15, 0, pytz.UTC)

how to get timezone in python

from time import gmtime, strftime
print(strftime("%z", gmtime()))

time zone in python

>>> import pytz
>>> from datetime import datetime, date, time
# To get the UTC time of current day (today) for a given time zone
# use the localize() function of the pytz. 
# The reason for this is that the localize() takes into account the Day Time Saving
# which niether the datetime constructors nor replace() account for.
# 
# To for example, the utc time of today in australia time zone:

import pytz
from datetime import datetime, date, time

# set time zone
tz = pytz.timezone("Australia/Melbourne")

# Get today's date in the current time zone (i.e local time)
todaydate = date.today() # you can also use date(2022, 2, 8)

# Get midnight of today (still local time)
# note time() without arguments will result to midnight

midnight_local = datetime.combine(todaydate, time())

print midnight_local

# convert this midnight datetime to the midnight datetime
# in the given time zone. In this case autralia time zone
austra_midnight = tz.localize(midnight_local)

print austra_midnight

# convert the midnight time in australia time zone to UTC
midnight_austra_utc = austra_midnight.astimezone(pytz.uct)

print midnight_austra_utc



# Ref:
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/373370/how-do-i-get-the-utc-time-of-midnight-for-a-given-timezone

Handling timezone in Python

from datetime import datetime
import pytz

local = datetime.now()
print("Local:", local.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S"))


tz_NY = pytz.timezone('America/New_York') 
datetime_NY = datetime.now(tz_NY)
print("NY:", datetime_NY.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S"))

tz_London = pytz.timezone('Europe/London')
datetime_London = datetime.now(tz_London)
print("London:", datetime_London.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S"))

how to get the time zones in python

The most prevalent library for timezones in python is pytz, which can be installed by:

pip install pytz
It allows you to manipulate times by assigning times to timezones using Olsen timezones (e.g. Europe/London).