Setting timezone in Python

Question

Is it possible with Python to set the timezone just like this in PHP:

date_default_timezone_set(\"Europe/London\");
$Year = date(\'y\');
$Month = date(\'m\')         


        

Answer 1

It's not an answer, but...

To get datetime components individually, better use datetime.timetuple:

time = datetime.now()
time.timetuple()
#-> time.struct_time(
#    tm_year=2014, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=7, 
#    tm_hour=2, tm_min=38, tm_sec=5, 
#    tm_wday=6, tm_yday=250, tm_isdst=-1
#)

It's now easy to get the parts:

ts = time.timetuple()
ts.tm_year
ts.tm_mon
ts.tm_mday
ts.tm_hour
ts.tm_min
ts.tm_sec