converting datetime object in UTC to local time

[Matt]

Hi all,

So a lot of digging on doing this and still not a fabulous solution:

import time

# this takes the last_modified_d ate naive datetime, converts it to a
# UTC timetuple, converts that to a timestamp (seconds since the
# epoch), subtracts the timezone offset (in seconds), and then
converts
# that back into a timetuple... Must be an easier way...
mytime = time.localtime( time.mktime(las t_modified_date .utctimetuple() )
- time.timezone)

lm_date_str = time.strftime(" %m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p %Z", mytime)

last_modified_d ate is a naive datetime.dateti me object


A previous version gave me something like:

mytime =
datetime.dateti me.fromtimestam p(time.mktime(l ast_modified_da te.utctimetuple ())
- time.timezone)

lm_date_str = mytime.strftime ("%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p %Z")

But this gave me no timezone since the datetime object is still
naive. And I'm going from a datetime to a timetuple to a timestamp
back to a datetime...

All this seems like a lot of monkeying around to do something that
should be simple -- is there a simple way to do this without requiring
some other module?

thx

Matt

[i3dmaster]

Re: converting datetime object in UTC to local time

How about subclass datetime.tzinfo ? That way you can use asttimezone
to transfer utc to localtime. It requires an aware object though not
naive. A bit more coding, but a lot less converting...

Jim

On Jul 3, 5:16 pm, Matt <m...@vazor.com wrote:

Hi all,
>
So a lot of digging on doing this and still not a fabulous solution:
>
import time
>
# this takes the last_modified_d ate naivedatetime, converts it to a
# UTC timetuple, converts that to a timestamp (seconds since the
# epoch), subtracts the timezone offset (in seconds), and then
converts
# that back into a timetuple... Must be an easier way...
mytime = time.localtime( time.mktime(las t_modified_date .utctimetuple() )
- time.timezone)
>
lm_date_str = time.strftime(" %m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p %Z", mytime)
>
last_modified_d ate is a naivedatetime.d atetimeobject
>
A previous version gave me something like:
>
mytime =datetime.datet ime.fromtimesta mp(time.mktime( last_modified_d ate.utctimetupl e())
- time.timezone)
>
lm_date_str = mytime.strftime ("%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p %Z")
>
But this gave me no timezone since thedatetimeobje ct is still
naive. And I'm going from adatetimeto a timetuple to a timestamp
back to adatetime...
>
All this seems like a lot of monkeying around to do something that
should be simple -- is there a simple way to do this without requiring
some other module?
>
thx
>
Matt