Ah ok, sorry, I misunderstood what you're trying to achieve :-)
from dateutil.tz import gettz
import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now(tz=gettz('UTC'))
>> datetime.datetime(2008, 6, 11, 7, 57, 36, 812305,
>> tzinfo=tzfile('/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC'))
london_time = gettz('Europe/London')
>>> now.astimezone(london_time)
datetime.datetime(2008, 6, 11, 8, 57, 36, 812305,
tzinfo=tzfile('/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London'))
This is using the dateutil package available on http://labix.org/python-dateutil
In general datetime.astimezone does probably what you want, but you
have to make sure, that the datetime object you're working with, has a
timezone associated with it. If you know what timezone it's supposed
to have (yet is lacking the timezone attribute itself), you can easily
attach a timezone like this:
mydatetime.replace(tzinfo=gettz('CEST')) # associated mydatetime with
the CEST timezone
I hope this helps :-)
-- Horst
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm kinda. Basically, users on my site can select their timezone. As
> there are events on the site, I want the time of these events to be
> displayed based on their timezone. I.E. if an event is at 10PM GMT, a
> user in New York should see it as 5PM EST.
>
> I could do this as a template tag, but I want to do it in the view
> level as there is logic that needs this information to pull out the
> right events and the right time.
>
> I've had a look at the link you sent, written in a way I don't
> understand though :( Any real world examples?
>
> I basically just need to split this:
>
> now = datetime.utcnow()
>
> Into this:
>
> 2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, 0,
>
> I guess it needs to be a string though as I need to wrap it in this:
>
> utc_dt = datetime(2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, 0, tzinfo=utc)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> On Jun 10, 10:06 pm, "Horst Gutmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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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