A seven hour and 37 minute offset? This is a little strange, does anyone experience the same issue? In fact I’m getting different behavior between Answer Time zones and offsets change over the years. The default zone name and offset delivered when pytz creates a timezone object are the earliest ones available for that zone, and sometimes they can seem
Tag: timezone
How to enable timezones with babel in my jinja filter?
I want to use timezones according to the babel locale. How can I achieve this? The specific situation I have is the goal of displaying the date and time of an article and a humanized and localized way eg: Yesterday 13:21 or if the Swedish language parameter is set it will display Igår 13:21 And if the date wasn’t yesterday
Get UTC offset from time zone name in python
How can I get UTC offset from time zone name in python? For example: I have Asia/Jerusalem and I want to get +0200 Answer Because of DST (Daylight Saving Time), the result depends on the time of the year:
How do I get a value of datetime.today() in Python that is “timezone aware”?
I am trying to subtract one date value from the value of datetime.datetime.today() to calculate how long ago something was. But it complains: The return value from datetime.datetime.today() doesn’t seem to be “timezone aware”, while my other date value is. How do I get a return value from datetime.datetime.today() that is timezone aware? The ideal solution would be for it
How can I get a human-readable timezone name in Python?
In a Python project I’m working on, I’d like to be able to get a “human-readable” timezone name of the form America/New_York, corresponding to the system local timezone, to display to the user. Every piece of code I’ve seen that accesses timezone information only returns either a numeric offset (-0400) or a letter code (EDT) or sometimes both. Is there
Python – calendar.timegm() vs. time.mktime()
I seem to have a hard time getting my head around this. What’s the difference between calendar.timegm() and time.mktime()? Say I have a datetime.datetime with no tzinfo attached, shouldn’t the two give the same output? Don’t they both give the number of seconds between epoch and the date passed as a parameter? And since the date passed has no tzinfo,