I'm trying to create a timezone object for "GMT+01", however, I haven't been able to find a way to do that using pytz. I tried using cities that (http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/gmt-plus-1/) says are in this timezone, but they all give seemingly weird and inconsistent results (they're relative to LMT)
>>> timezone('Africa/Algiers')
<DstTzInfo 'Africa/Algiers' PMT+0:09:00 STD>
>>> timezone('Africa/Brazzaville')
<DstTzInfo 'Africa/Brazzaville' LMT+1:01:00 STD>
>>> timezone('Africa/Conakry')
<DstTzInfo 'Africa/Conakry' LMT-1 day, 23:05:00 STD>
>>> timezone('Africa/Douala')
<DstTzInfo 'Africa/Douala' LMT+0:39:00 STD>
Does anyone know of a way to just create a custom timezone with "GMT+01" or maybe even creating one relative to timezone("GMT"). I tried adding a datetime.timedelta, but that (unsurprisingly) didn't work.
You can do that using pytz by selecting timezone, then try to manipulate strings and extract from datetime the time in function of GMT, then you can select only time with GMT+x in your case, it's GMT+1
import pytz
from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta, datetime
GMT_1_Time_Zone = []
for tz in pytz.common_timezones:
now = datetime.now(pytz.timezone(tz))
print now
if "+0100" in now.strftime("%z"):
GMT_1_Time_Zone.append((tz, "(GMT%s) %s" % (now.strftime("%z"), tz)))
print GMT_1_Time_Zone
Output:
[('Africa/Algiers', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Algiers'), ('Africa/Bangui', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Bangui'), ('Africa/Brazzaville', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Brazzaville'), ('Africa/Ceuta', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Ceuta'), ('Africa/Douala', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Douala'), ('Africa/Kinshasa', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Kinshasa'), ('Africa/Lagos', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Lagos'), ('Africa/Libreville', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Libreville'), ('Africa/Luanda', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Luanda'), ('Africa/Malabo', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Malabo'), ('Africa/Ndjamena', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Ndjamena'), ('Africa/Niamey', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Niamey'), ('Africa/Porto-Novo', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Porto-Novo'), ('Africa/Tripoli', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Tripoli'), ('Africa/Tunis', '(GMT+0100) Africa/Tunis'), ('Arctic/Longyearbyen', '(GMT+0100) Arctic/Longyearbyen'), ('Europe/Amsterdam', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Amsterdam'), ('Europe/Andorra', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Andorra'), ('Europe/Belgrade', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Belgrade'), ('Europe/Berlin', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Berlin'), ('Europe/Bratislava', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Bratislava'), ('Europe/Brussels', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Brussels'), ('Europe/Budapest', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Budapest'), ('Europe/Busingen', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Busingen'), ('Europe/Copenhagen', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Copenhagen'), ('Europe/Gibraltar', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Gibraltar'), ('Europe/Ljubljana', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Ljubljana'), ('Europe/Luxembourg', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Luxembourg'), ('Europe/Madrid', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Madrid'), ('Europe/Malta', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Malta'), ('Europe/Monaco', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Monaco'), ('Europe/Oslo', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Oslo'), ('Europe/Paris', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Paris'), ('Europe/Podgorica', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Podgorica'), ('Europe/Prague', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Prague'), ('Europe/Rome', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Rome'), ('Europe/San_Marino', '(GMT+0100) Europe/San_Marino'), ('Europe/Sarajevo', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Sarajevo'), ('Europe/Skopje', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Skopje'), ('Europe/Stockholm', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Stockholm'), ('Europe/Tirane', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Tirane'), ('Europe/Vaduz', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Vaduz'), ('Europe/Vatican', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Vatican'), ('Europe/Vienna', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Vienna'), ('Europe/Warsaw', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Warsaw'), ('Europe/Zagreb', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Zagreb'), ('Europe/Zurich', '(GMT+0100) Europe/Zurich')]
UPDATE
After digging in the problem. I found two better solutions to do that.
from dateutil import tz
import datetime
import pytz
from datetime import datetime
dt = datetime.strptime("2014-11-02 21:00:00", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
dt = pytz.timezone('Etc/GMT+1').localize(dt)
dt.isoformat()
print dt
using parser
from dateutil.parser import parse
dt = parse("2014-11-02 21:00:00" + "GMT+0100")
dt.isoformat()
print dt