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Getting computer's UTC offset in Python

In Python, how do you find what UTC time offset the computer is set to?

Solution

  • gmtime() will return the UTC time and localtime() will return the local time so subtracting the two should give you the utc offset.

    From https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/gmtime.html

    The gmtime() function shall convert the time in seconds since the Epoch pointed to by timer into a broken-down time, expressed as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

    So, despite the name gmttime, the function returns UTC.