Problem with date in Python.

Question

Hi,

I'm developing a web application and would like to display user's current date basing on his timezone. Here is my code:

userTimezone = -5 #EAST is positive, WEST negative 
utcTimestamp = time.mktime(time.gmtime())
userDate = time.gmtime(utcTimestamp+userTimezone*60*60)

I think the problem is with gmtime() since it does some conversions automatically. If I could, I would replace gmtime with function which doesn't convert anything, but haven't found any.

Answer 1

you are probably looking for time.localtime(seconds). gmtime always returns utc time.

Answer 2

Set time.timezone to the user's timezone, then display it using localtime().