need to convert UTC (aws ec2) to PST in python

Question

I need to convert UTC time, (on ec2 instance) to PST. I am trying to do this.

from datetime import datetime
from pytz import timezone
import pytz

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Answer 1

if you want to calculate the current uptime based on launchtime of an EC2 instance, one can try this:

import datetime
lt_datetime = datetime.datetime.strptime(inst.launch_time, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
lt_delta = datetime.datetime.utcnow() - lt_datetime
str(lt_delta)