This question is really quite simple, and it's basically the title. I am in Western Australia.
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1Does this answer your question? How to get the current time in PythonAyush– Ayush2020-06-27 06:11:31 +00:00Commented Jun 27, 2020 at 6:11
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1Specifically, use the datetime and pytz module. Look at this answerAyush– Ayush2020-06-27 06:14:06 +00:00Commented Jun 27, 2020 at 6:14
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1Save yourself some headache and use dateutil instead of pytz - e.g. like this.FObersteiner– FObersteiner2020-06-27 07:22:37 +00:00Commented Jun 27, 2020 at 7:22
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Yup the pytz and datetime module is the way to go:
import pytz
from datetime import datetime
timezone = 'Australia/Perth'
py_timezone = pytz.timezone(timezone)
current_datetime = datetime.now(py_timezone)
If you need to find a specific timezone you use the all_timezones property in pytz, which will return a list of all timezones.
import pytz
all_timezones = pytz.all_timezones
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FObersteiner
datetime.now(py_timezone) - getting a timezone-aware datetime object with pytz works for .now(), however, the generic way to do this would be py_timezone.localize(naive_dtobj). IMHO, localize (and normalize) should always be mentioned in the context of pytz since I've seen many cases where this went wrong (some of my own code included).pytz is likely to be deprecated in the future.
The newer and better way to do this, as of Python 3.9 (currently in beta) is to use the zoneinfo module.
Current time in Amsterdam:
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
now = datetime.now(tz=ZoneInfo("Europe/Amsterdam"))
Convert a time in one timezone to another:
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
dt = datetime(2020, 1, 1, 12, tzinfo=ZoneInfo("Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh"))
converted_dt = dt.astimezone(ZoneInfo("Africa/Windhoek"))
Get available timezones:
import zoneinfo
zoneinfo.available_timezones()
You can use this already in Python 3.6+ with the backports.zoneinfo package.
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FObersteiner
You can use
backports to use zoneinfo already in earlier versions of Python
Tom Carrick
Good point, I've added that into the answer, thanks.
important to notice is also that if you only want to have the local time, i.e. according to the timezone setting of your OS, you only need datetime.
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
# print(now)
# 2020-06-27 13:08:12.007814
now would be a naive datetime object, i.e. it does not know about the timezone. Python will by default assume that it belongs in your local timezone (not e.g. UTC).
You can even make it timezone-aware without any other imports:
now = now.astimezone()
# print(now)
# 2020-06-27 13:08:12.007814+02:00 # I'm on CEST at the moment; UTC+2
If you want to implement different timezones or change timezones, here's an example how to do it with dateutil:
import dateutil
awst = dateutil.tz.gettz('Australia/Perth')
now_naive = datetime.now()
now_aware = now_naive.replace(tzinfo=awst)
print(now_aware.strftime('%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z %Z'))
# Sat 27 Jun 2020 17:08:53 +0800 AWST
# same time in another timezone:
cest = dateutil.tz.gettz('Europe/Berlin')
now_aware = now_aware.astimezone(cest)
print(now_aware.strftime('%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z %Z'))
# Sat 27 Jun 2020 11:08:53 +0200 CEST
For Python 3.9 zoneinfo, the methods are basically the same so changing from dateutil to zoneinfo is feasable.