Convert UTC datetime string to local datetime

Question

I\'ve never had to convert time to and from UTC. Recently had a request to have my app be timezone aware, and I\'ve been running myself in circles. Lots of information on co

Answer 1

You can use calendar.timegm to convert your time to seconds since Unix epoch and time.localtime to convert back:

import calendar
import time

time_tuple = time.strptime("2011-01-21 02:37:21", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
t = calendar.timegm(time_tuple)

print time.ctime(t)

Gives Fri Jan 21 05:37:21 2011 (because I'm in UTC+03:00 timezone).