How to get python to display current time (eastern)

Question

How can I get Python to display the time in eastern?

I\'ve looked over the python documentation but it\'s pretty confusing. I\'m using Python 3.

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is a much more intuitive way, of course:

from datetime import datetime
from pytz import timezone
tz = timezone('EST')
datetime.now(tz) 
## this returns a datetime object pointing to right now 
## according to the timezone info object handed in as the tz variable. 

Alternatively you can define your own datetime object and pass in tz as tzinfo, as you can see below:

datetime(2016, 3, 30, 11, 13, 24, tzinfo=tz)