datetime python specify timezone based on system time code example

Example 1: python time now other timezone

#as an aware datetime
from datetime import datetime, timezone

utc_dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc) # UTC time
dt = utc_dt.astimezone() # local time


#or from pytz database
import pytz

tz = pytz.timezone('Europe/Berlin')
berlin_now = datetime.now(tz)

Example 2: python set timezone of datetime.now

my_date = datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('US/Pacific'))