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How to get UTC time given timezone?

I am in the US and I want to get the UTC time (without the effect of Daylight Saving Time) for a piece of code:

localtime = strftime("%m%d%y%H%M", gmtime())

Right now that code give me time in Greenwich, England. I know that I have a time offset of -8 (GMT -8). How can I get the UTC time to a specific timezone? (using Python library, not casting the hour to integer, - 8, and than convert it back)

Solution

  • Try the datetime module:

    datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(hours=-8)

    BTW, UTC doesn't have timezones, it's Universal Co-ordinated Time, it's the same everywhere.