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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Where on Earth do Timezones Make Sense? Timezone Strings

SUDHARSAN CHAKRAVARTHI
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SUDHARSAN CHAKRAVARTHI
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SUDHARSAN CHAKRAVARTHI
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timezone on starter variable

As my understanding, starter variable is assigned with the time which has a zone info associated [ UTC ] with it and localized.

All we need to do is convert it to UTC timezone using astimezone() method and convert it to any time zone.

Can you please confirm my understanding.

timezone.py 
import datetime

import pytz

starter = pytz.utc.localize(datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 23, 29))

2 Answers

MUZ140889 Dephine Chenayi Chihota
MUZ140889 Dephine Chenayi Chihota
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MUZ140889 Dephine Chenayi Chihota
MUZ140889 Dephine Chenayi Chihota
6,766 Points

hie Sudharsan. the first step is to create the function as the question says. inside the function you then use your pytz.timezone and astimezone to change starter to that timezone, like so

def to_timezone(tz):

starter_new = starter.astimezone(pytz.timezone(tz))

return starter_new
pala
pala
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thank you so much!