Python: date, time formatting

Question

I need to generate a local timestamp in a form of YYYYMMDDHHmmSSOHH\'mm\'. That OHH\'mm\' is one of +, -, Z and then there are hourhs and minutes followed by \'.

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Answer 1

time.strftime will do for that,

And in linux, %z will just give you -HHMM format if environment variable is properly set.

>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'EST'
>>> time.strftime('%x %X %z')
'03/21/10 08:16:33 -0500'