Re: utcnow

2012-09-16 Thread Ben Finney
Nick the Gr33k writes: > Hello is there a better way of writing this: > > date = ( datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(hours=3) > ).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') > > something like: > > date = datetime.datetime.utcnow(hours=3).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') > > i prefer it if it coul

Re: utcnow

2012-09-16 Thread Joost Molenaar
Time zones! So much fun. Looks like you're dealing with UTC offsets yourself, which gets messy as soon as you start thinking about DST. The good news is that there's a timezone database on most systems, which you should almost definitely use. Take a look at python-dateutil (pip install python-date

utcnow

2012-09-16 Thread Nick the Gr33k
Hello is there a better way of writing this: date = ( datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(hours=3) ).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') something like: date = datetime.datetime.utcnow(hours=3).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') i prefer it if it could be written as this. Also what about