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Python datetime output +3GMT

Please help me to improve my code. I'am trying to calculate current time minus 3 minutes, and output should be in Unix Timestamp +3GMT But instead it prints me utc time (+ 0)

import datetime
import pytz


tz = pytz.timezone('Europe/Moscow')
ct = datetime.datetime.now(tz=tz)


#TIMESTAMP = (datetime.datetime.now(tz=tz) - datetime.timedelta(minutes=3)).timestamp()
TIMESTAMP = (ct - datetime.timedelta(minutes=3)).timestamp()

print(TIMESTAMP)

I am expecting to calculate current time minus 3 minutes and have an output without digits after "."

My output 1723800379.779615, but should be 1723627579

Solution

  • Code Correction

    dateutil provides more flexible timezone handling compared to pytz.

    from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import dateutil.tz
tz = dateutil.tz.gettz('Europe/Moscow')
ct = datetime.now(tz)
time_minus_3_minutes = ct - timedelta(minutes=3)
timestamp = int(time_minus_3_minutes.timestamp())#Unix timestamp conversion

print(timestamp)

    Output

    1723801868