Local solar time function from UTC and longitude

Question

I\'m wondering if there is a python function/module that calculates the local time after midnight (or local solar time) given the UTC time and longitude? It doesn\'t need to

Answer 1

For a very simple function & very very approximated local time: Time variation goes from -12h to +12h and longitude goes from -180 to 180. Then:

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import datetime as dt

def localTimeApprox(myDateTime, longitude):
   """Returns local hour approximation"""
   return myDateTime+dt.timedelta(hours=(longitude*12/180))

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Sample calling: localTimeApprox(dt.datetime(2014, 7, 9, 20, 00, 00), -75)

Returns: datetime.datetime(2014, 7, 9, 15, 0)