You mean like the difference in seconds between 2 timezones? Then
perhaps the tzinfo class itself might be of some help here. It has a
utcoffset(self, datetime) method that returns a datetime.timedelta
instance: http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-tzinfo.html
- Horst
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I want to convert a UTC timestamp so I can use it to figure out what
> offset a certain user has based on their selected timezone. I'm using
> the Python pytz module by the way.
>
> Here is the code so far:
>
> ==========
>
> # get users time
> timezone = timezone('America/New_York')
>
> # get UTC time
> now = datetime.utcnow()
> now.strftime()
>
> # begin timezone conversion
> utc_dt = datetime(now, tzinfo=utc)
>
> # this is the date and time to print
> fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z%z'
> tz = utc_dt.astimezone(timezone)
> tz.strftime(fmt)
>
> ==========
>
> The problem I am having is converting utc_dt into a format I can use.
> I've seen examples that do this:
>
> utc_dt = datetime(2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, 0, tzinfo=utc)
>
> But the problem is how do I get my now variable into that format?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> >
>
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