Converting a string to a formatted date-time string using Python

Question

I\'m trying to convert a string \"20091229050936\" into \"05:09 29 December 2009 (UTC)\"

>>>import time
>>>s = time.strptime(\"200912290509         


        

Answer 1

For me this is the best and it works on Google App Engine as well

Example showing UTC-4

import datetime   
UTC_OFFSET = 4
local_datetime = datetime.datetime.now()
print (local_datetime - datetime.timedelta(hours=UTC_OFFSET)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")