Pfu, no idea. This is the first time I've heard of pytz, to be honest :-) But I'd assume that whenever you create a new datetime object with a given timezone, it should consider the DST setting. Haven't tried it though on any library.
-- Horst On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahhh ok, does this handle daylight saving for you automatically do you > know? > > Overall looks pretty useful, but I wonder how this differs to pytz: > > http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ > > Do they do the same thing? Just different implementations? > > Thanks for your help so far though :) > > On Jun 11, 8:59 am, "Horst Gutmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 >> onhttp://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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
