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Rajesh Kumar
Rajesh Kumar

Reputation: 1290

Why the UTC time is different in different time zones?

I am using python module to get the utctime

datetime.datetime.utcnow()

but in IST timezone, it is giving the value as 

datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 20, 17, 24, 37, 674000)

and in EST timezone, getting

datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 20, 14, 24, 54, 865419)

I think value needs to be same just like GMT time, but why is the difference?

I found that in linux system,when I run date command, PST time is shown but with EST

Tue Jan 20 09:35:55 EST 2015

09:35 is the current PST time, but why it is giving EST?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 291

Answers (1)

leewz
leewz

Reputation: 3346

The computer in the EST time zone has the wrong system time.

That's it.

If it's showing "EST" but giving PST-consistent time, the system clock is wrong.

Upvotes: 1

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