python time to timezone 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: get local timezone python

import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now()
local_now = now.astimezone()
local_tz = local_now.tzinfo
local_tzname = local_tz.tzname(local_now)
print(local_tzname)

Example 3: python - oordinated universal time

from datetime import datetime, timezone
print(datetime.now())              # timezone
print(datetime.now(timezone.utc))  # coordinated universal time

Example 4: time python

#import time module:
import time
#module has various attributes: 
dir(time)
[..., 'localtime', 'mktime', 'sleep', 'sleep_ms', 'sleep_us', 'ticks_add', 'ticks_cpu', 'ticks_diff', 'ticks_ms', 'ticks_us', 'time']

#default expression is in seconds with zero being start of runtime
secFromStart = time.time()