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

Posted by Francisco Correa
Francisco Correa
7,322 Points

What I´m doing wrong? Any clue?

I used localize and timezone methods to convert starter into the correct timezone, but seems to be wrong and I can't see the error here.

Please help me :) Thanks!

timezone.py 
import datetime

import pytz

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

1 Answer

Cindy Lea
PLUS
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points
Cindy Lea
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points

Try something like this:

import datetime

import pytz

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

Francisco Correa
Francisco Correa
7,322 Points

Thanks!!!