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fny
fny

Reputation: 33605

pytz Not Updating Hours on Timezone Change

For whatever reason, pytz doesn't seem to be changing the hour of the datetime object.

from pytz import timezone
from datetime import datetime

eastern = timezone('US/Eastern').localize(datetime.now()).hour
central = timezone('US/central').localize(datetime.now()).hour

assert eastern != central # AssertionError

What do I need to do to fix this? I want to convert datetime.now() to a different datetime.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 353

Answers (1)

jordanm
jordanm

Reputation: 34994

The reason for that behavior is because datetime.now() returns a naive time. It doesn't add/subtract any time from it, because it doesn't have a way to know how much to add/subtract. To get the current datetime in a different timezone using pytz, just pass the timezone object to datetime.now():

In [32]: eastern = datetime.now(timezone('US/Eastern')).hour                                                                               

In [33]: central = datetime.now(timezone('US/Central')).hour                                                                               

In [34]: eastern                                                                                                                           
Out[34]: 18

In [35]: central                                                                                                                           
Out[35]: 17

In [36]: assert central != eastern                                                                                                         

In [37]:

Upvotes: 1

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