How do I print a datetime in the local timezone?

by

As of python 3.6 calling astimezone() without a timezone object defaults to the local zone (docs). This means you don’t need to import tzlocal and can simply do the following:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from datetime import datetime, timezone

utc_dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

print("Local time {}".format(utc_dt.astimezone().isoformat()))

This script demonstrates a few other ways to show the local timezone using astimezone():

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import pytz
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from tzlocal import get_localzone

utc_dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

PST = pytz.timezone("US/Pacific")
EST = pytz.timezone("US/Eastern")
JST = pytz.timezone("Asia/Tokyo")
NZST = pytz.timezone("Pacific/Auckland")

print("Pacific time {}".format(utc_dt.astimezone(PST).isoformat()))
print("Eastern time {}".format(utc_dt.astimezone(EST).isoformat()))
print("UTC time     {}".format(utc_dt.isoformat()))
print("Japan time   {}".format(utc_dt.astimezone(JST).isoformat()))

# Use astimezone() without an argument
print("Local time   {}".format(utc_dt.astimezone().isoformat()))

# Use tzlocal get_localzone
print("Local time   {}".format(utc_dt.astimezone(get_localzone()).isoformat()))

# Explicitly create a pytz timezone object
# Substitute a pytz.timezone object for your timezone
print("Local time   {}".format(utc_dt.astimezone(NZST).isoformat()))

It outputs the following:

$ ./timezones.py 
Pacific time 2019-02-22T17:54:14.957299-08:00
Eastern time 2019-02-22T20:54:14.957299-05:00
UTC time     2019-02-23T01:54:14.957299+00:00
Japan time   2019-02-23T10:54:14.957299+09:00
Local time   2019-02-23T14:54:14.957299+13:00
Local time   2019-02-23T14:54:14.957299+13:00
Local time   2019-02-23T14:54:14.957299+13:00

More Related Contents:

  1. Find if 24 hrs have passed between datetimes
  2. How to make a timezone aware datetime object in Python?
  3. How to parse dates with -0400 timezone string in Python?
  4. Convert pandas timezone-aware DateTimeIndex to naive timestamp, but in certain timezone
  5. Display the time in a different time zone
  6. How to convert a UTC datetime to a local datetime using only standard library?
  7. How to make a timezone aware datetime object
  8. How do I get the UTC time of “midnight” for a given timezone?
  9. Getting computer’s UTC offset in Python
  10. pytz localize vs datetime replace
  11. Get Timezone from City in Python/Django
  12. How to remove timezone from a Timestamp column in a pandas dataframe
  13. Setting timezone in Python
  14. unexpected results converting timezones in python
  15. python – datetime with timezone to epoch
  16. How to set the timezone in Django
  17. What python libraries can tell me approximate location and time zone given an IP address?
  18. Python pytz timezone function returns a timezone that is off by 9 minutes
  19. Python get current time in right timezone [duplicate]
  20. Python time to age, part 2: timezones [duplicate]
  21. Converting time zone pandas dataframe
  22. Python: Figure out local timezone
  23. pytz – Converting UTC and timezone to local time
  24. How to make a datetime object aware (not naive) in Python?
  25. Python: datetime tzinfo time zone names documentation
  26. Python – calendar.timegm() vs. time.mktime()
  27. Use Python to find out if a timezone currently in daylight savings time [duplicate]
  28. Why doesn’t pytz localize() produce a datetime object with tzinfo matching the tz object that localized it?
  29. How to make a datetime object aware (not naive)
  30. How to automatically get user’s timezone from client in Django?

Leave a Comment