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zwlayer
zwlayer

Reputation: 1824

Which time zone does the timestamps are written on retweets

I am trying to understand when a tweet is retweeted. To do that I learnt how to use twitter API and tweetpy. This is the first time I use both of them.

I got the retweet I am interested by using the following line at the end:

        auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
        auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
        auth_api = API(auth)
        tweetid= # this is the id of the original tweet
        auth_api.retweets(tweetid)[0].created_at

Now, when I look at the output I see datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 28, 15, 44, 56) this result. However, I cannot see the timezone this timestamp belongs. How can I know that according to which time zone is this written ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 779

Answers (1)

Tané Tachyon
Tané Tachyon

Reputation: 1112

According to https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/tweet-object created_at is a string attribute with the value of "UTC time when this Tweet was created."

Upvotes: 1

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