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

Leo Marco Corpuz
Leo Marco Corpuz
18,975 Points
Posted by Leo Marco Corpuz
Leo Marco Corpuz
18,975 Points

Pytz

Not sure what’s wrong with my code.

timezone.py 
import datetime

import pytz

starter = pytz.utc.localize(datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 23, 29))
def to_timezone(tz_string):
    tz_name=pytz.timezone(tz_string)
    return tz_name.localize(starter)

1 Answer

Mustafa Başaran
Mustafa Başaran
28,046 Points
Mustafa Başaran
Mustafa Başaran
28,046 Points

Hi Leo,

You have a given timezone and a time string. So, you can build a localized time via astimezone() in the function. 

def to_timezone(tz_string):
    tz = pytz.timezone(tz_string)
    return starter.astimezone(tz)

Please also check http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ for details and other examples.