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Start your free trialAndrew Mlamba
15,642 PointsI am following along in this video, but am not getting the Value Error at about 02:35
C:\Users\andrew.mlamba>python
Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 23 2016, 08:06:12) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import datetime
>>> eat = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=+3))
>>> cat = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=+2))
>>> eat
datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0, 10800))
>>> cat
datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0, 7200))
>>> naive = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 18, 0)
>>> naive
datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 18, 0, 0)
>>> naive.astimezone(eat)
datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 18, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0, 10800)))
>>>
1 Answer
Umesh Ravji
42,386 PointsHi Andrew
import datetime
eastern = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=-5))
naive = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 18, 0)
print(naive.astimezone(eastern)) # 2016-01-17 14:00:00+03:00
I found I had this same issue when using Python 3.6, so I just went back to 3.5.2