Timezones in Python
Thursday, January 10th, 2008- I had a Python datetime object, T.
- I knew it was in Eastern time and wanted to convert to UTC.
- I also wanted it to keep track of daylight savings time, for when I have dates later in the year.
- Python datetime objects have “support” for timezone info, but you have to implement it yourself. Read: more coding overhead that I’m trying to avoid.
Here’s how to do it the easy way. (more…)