Time conversion between UTC and local time

[andreas.profous@googlemail.com]

Hi all,

I have the following problem:
There are strings describing a UTC time, e.g. " 2008-01-15 22:32:30"
and a string reflecting the time
zone e.g. "-05:00".

What is an elegant way of getting the local time (considering DST -
daylight saving time) with that data?
The date is not important, just the local time.
The format is not important, the easiest would probably be a tuple
(h,m,s) .

Thanks in advance

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

Re: Time conversion between UTC and local time

-On [20080208 15:16], andreas.profous @googlemail.com (andreas.profou s@googlemail.co m) wrote:

>What is an elegant way of getting the local time (considering DST -
>daylight saving time) with that data?

Perhaps using pytz might be the easiest way: http://pytz.sourceforge.net/

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[Miki]

Re: Time conversion between UTC and local time

Hello,

I have the following problem:
There are strings describing a UTC time, e.g. " 2008-01-15 22:32:30"
and a string reflecting the time
zone e.g. "-05:00".
>
What is an elegant way of getting the local time (considering DST -
daylight saving time) with that data?
The date is not important, just the local time.
The format is not important, the easiest would probably be a tuple
(h,m,s) .

http://labix.org/python-dateutil

HTH,
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Miki <miki.tebeka@gm ail.com>

http://pythonwise.blogspot.com