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I am looking for a quick way to type in a time and then python convert it into other timezones ( maybe up to 10 different timezones )
Sorry. I am not familar with time in python at all, if someone could put me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.
I have found that the best approach is to convert the "moment" of interest to a utc-timezone-aware datetime object (in python, the timezone component is not required for
datetime
objects).
Then you can use
astimezone
to convert to the timezone of interest (
reference
).
from datetime import datetime
import pytz
utcmoment_naive = datetime.utcnow()
utcmoment = utcmoment_naive.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)
# print "utcmoment_naive: {0}".format(utcmoment_naive) # python 2
print("utcmoment_naive: {0}".format(utcmoment_naive))
print("utcmoment: {0}".format(utcmoment))
localFormat = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
timezones = ['America/Los_Angeles', 'Europe/Madrid', 'America/Puerto_Rico']
for tz in timezones:
localDatetime = utcmoment.astimezone(pytz.timezone(tz))
print(localDatetime.strftime(localFormat))
# utcmoment_naive: 2017-05-11 17:43:30.802644
# utcmoment: 2017-05-11 17:43:30.802644+00:00
# 2017-05-11 10:43:30
# 2017-05-11 19:43:30
# 2017-05-11 13:43:30
So, with the moment of interest in the local timezone (a time that exists), you convert it to utc like this (reference).
localmoment_naive = datetime.strptime('2013-09-06 14:05:10', localFormat)
localtimezone = pytz.timezone('Australia/Adelaide')
localmoment = localtimezone.localize(localmoment_naive, is_dst=None)
print("Time exists")
utcmoment = localmoment.astimezone(pytz.utc)
except pytz.exceptions.NonExistentTimeError as e:
print("NonExistentTimeError")
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fmt = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z%z"
timezonelist = ['UTC','US/Pacific','Europe/Berlin']
for zone in timezonelist:
now_time = datetime.now(timezone(zone))
print now_time.strftime(fmt)
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def convert_datetime_timezone(dt, tz1, tz2):
tz1 = pytz.timezone(tz1)
tz2 = pytz.timezone(tz2)
dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(dt,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
dt = tz1.localize(dt)
dt = dt.astimezone(tz2)
dt = dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
return dt
dt
: date time string
tz1
: initial time zone
tz2
: target time zone
> convert_datetime_timezone("2017-05-13 14:56:32", "Europe/Berlin", "PST8PDT")
'2017-05-13 05:56:32'
> convert_datetime_timezone("2017-05-13 14:56:32", "Europe/Berlin", "UTC")
'2017-05-13 12:56:32'
> pytz.all_timezones[0:10]
['Africa/Abidjan',
'Africa/Accra',
'Africa/Addis_Ababa',
'Africa/Algiers',
'Africa/Asmara',
'Africa/Asmera',
'Africa/Bamako',
'Africa/Bangui',
'Africa/Banjul',
'Africa/Bissau']
To convert a time in one timezone to another timezone in Python, you could use datetime.astimezone()
:
time_in_new_timezone = time_in_old_timezone.astimezone(new_timezone)
Given aware_dt
(a datetime
object in some timezone), to convert it to other timezones and to print the times in a given time format:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pytz # $ pip install pytz
time_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z"
tzids = ['Asia/Shanghai', 'Europe/London', 'America/New_York']
for tz in map(pytz.timezone, tzids):
time_in_tz = aware_dt.astimezone(tz)
print(f"{time_in_tz:{time_format}}")
If f""
syntax is unavailable, you could replace it with "".format(**vars())
where you could set aware_dt
from the current time in the local timezone:
from datetime import datetime
import tzlocal # $ pip install tzlocal
local_timezone = tzlocal.get_localzone()
aware_dt = datetime.now(local_timezone) # the current time
Or from the input time string in the local timezone:
naive_dt = datetime.strptime(time_string, time_format)
aware_dt = local_timezone.localize(naive_dt, is_dst=None)
where time_string
could look like: '2016-11-19 02:21:42'
. It corresponds to time_format = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
.
is_dst=None
forces an exception if the input time string corresponds to a non-existing or ambiguous local time such as during a DST transition. You could also pass is_dst=False
, is_dst=True
. See links with more details at Python: How do you convert datetime/timestamp from one timezone to another timezone?
Please note: The first part of this answer is or version 1.x of pendulum. See below for a version 2.x answer.
I hope I'm not too late!
The pendulum library excels at this and other date-time calculations.
>>> import pendulum
>>> some_time_zones = ['Europe/Paris', 'Europe/Moscow', 'America/Toronto', 'UTC', 'Canada/Pacific', 'Asia/Macao']
>>> heres_a_time = '1996-03-25 12:03 -0400'
>>> pendulum_time = pendulum.datetime.strptime(heres_a_time, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %z')
>>> for tz in some_time_zones:
... tz, pendulum_time.astimezone(tz)
('Europe/Paris', <Pendulum [1996-03-25T17:03:00+01:00]>)
('Europe/Moscow', <Pendulum [1996-03-25T19:03:00+03:00]>)
('America/Toronto', <Pendulum [1996-03-25T11:03:00-05:00]>)
('UTC', <Pendulum [1996-03-25T16:03:00+00:00]>)
('Canada/Pacific', <Pendulum [1996-03-25T08:03:00-08:00]>)
('Asia/Macao', <Pendulum [1996-03-26T00:03:00+08:00]>)
Answer lists the names of the time zones that may be used with pendulum. (They're the same as for pytz.)
For version 2:
some_time_zones
is a list of the names of the time zones that might be used in a program
heres_a_time
is a sample time, complete with a time zone in the form '-0400'
I begin by converting the time to a pendulum time for subsequent processing
now I can show what this time is in each of the time zones in show_time_zones
>>> import pendulum
>>> some_time_zones = ['Europe/Paris', 'Europe/Moscow', 'America/Toronto', 'UTC', 'Canada/Pacific', 'Asia/Macao']
>>> heres_a_time = '1996-03-25 12:03 -0400'
>>> pendulum_time = pendulum.from_format('1996-03-25 12:03 -0400', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm ZZ')
>>> for tz in some_time_zones:
... tz, pendulum_time.in_tz(tz)
('Europe/Paris', DateTime(1996, 3, 25, 17, 3, 0, tzinfo=Timezone('Europe/Paris')))
('Europe/Moscow', DateTime(1996, 3, 25, 19, 3, 0, tzinfo=Timezone('Europe/Moscow')))
('America/Toronto', DateTime(1996, 3, 25, 11, 3, 0, tzinfo=Timezone('America/Toronto')))
('UTC', DateTime(1996, 3, 25, 16, 3, 0, tzinfo=Timezone('UTC')))
('Canada/Pacific', DateTime(1996, 3, 25, 8, 3, 0, tzinfo=Timezone('Canada/Pacific')))
('Asia/Macao', DateTime(1996, 3, 26, 0, 3, 0, tzinfo=Timezone('Asia/Macao')))
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Python 3.9 adds the zoneinfo
module so now only the the standard library is needed!
>>> from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> d = datetime(2020, 10, 31, 12, tzinfo=ZoneInfo('America/Los_Angeles'))
>>> d.astimezone(ZoneInfo('Europe/Berlin')) # 12:00 in Cali will be 20:00 in Berlin
datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 31, 20, 0, tzinfo=zoneinfo.ZoneInfo(key='Europe/Berlin'))
Wikipedia list of available time zones
Some functions such as now()
and utcnow()
return timezone-unaware datetimes, meaning they contain no timezone information. I recommend only requesting timezone-aware values from them using the keyword tz=ZoneInfo('localtime')
.
If astimezone
gets a timezone-unaware input, it will assume it is local time, which can lead to errors:
>>> datetime.utcnow() # UTC -- NOT timezone-aware!!
datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 1, 22, 39, 57, 376479)
>>> datetime.now() # Local time -- NOT timezone-aware!!
datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 2, 0, 39, 57, 376675)
>>> datetime.now(tz=ZoneInfo('localtime')) # timezone-aware
datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 2, 0, 39, 57, 376806, tzinfo=zoneinfo.ZoneInfo(key='localtime'))
>>> datetime.now(tz=ZoneInfo('Europe/Berlin')) # timezone-aware
datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 2, 0, 39, 57, 376937, tzinfo=zoneinfo.ZoneInfo(key='Europe/Berlin'))
>>> datetime.utcnow().astimezone(ZoneInfo('Europe/Berlin')) # WRONG!!
datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 1, 22, 39, 57, 377562, tzinfo=zoneinfo.ZoneInfo(key='Europe/Berlin'))
There is a backport to allow use in Python 3.6 to 3.8:
sudo pip install backports.zoneinfo
Then:
from backports.zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
For Python 3.2+ simple-date is a wrapper around pytz that tries to simplify things.
If you have a time
then
SimpleDate(time).convert(tz="...")
may do what you want. But timezones are quite complex things, so it can get significantly more complicated - see the the docs.
Time conversion
To convert a time in one timezone to another timezone in Python, you could use datetime.astimezone():
so, below code is to convert the local time to other time zone.
datetime.datetime.today() - return current the local time
datetime.astimezone() - convert the time zone, but we have to pass the time zone.
pytz.timezone('Asia/Kolkata') -passing the time zone to pytz module
Strftime - Convert Datetime to string
# Time conversion from local time
import datetime
import pytz
dt_today = datetime.datetime.today() # Local time
dt_India = dt_today.astimezone(pytz.timezone('Asia/Kolkata'))
dt_London = dt_today.astimezone(pytz.timezone('Europe/London'))
India = (dt_India.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M'))
London = (dt_London.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M'))
print("Indian standard time: "+India+" IST")
print("British Summer Time: "+London+" BST")
list all the time zone
import pytz
for tz in pytz.all_timezones:
print(tz)
os.environ['TZ'] = 'US/Eastern'
time.tzset()
print('US/Eastern in string form:',time.asctime())
os.environ['TZ'] = 'Australia/Melbourne'
time.tzset()
print('Australia/Melbourne in string form:',time.asctime())
os.environ['TZ'] = 'Asia/Kolkata'
time.tzset()
print('Asia/Kolkata in string form:',time.asctime())
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