Timezone aware datetime to string? [duplicate]

Question

I am retrieving a timezone aware DateTime object from my postgres db.

Now I want to convert this datetime object into it's string representation.

Normally I would do something like this:

str(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 15, 9, 59, 45, 165904))
'2016-01-15 09:59:45.165904'

But here I have:

datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 15, 9, 59, 45, 165904, tzinfo=<UTC>)

I cannot find a way anywhere to find the str repesentation of the given object.

Please check out the lambo477's answer, he's talking about the same thing. — Alex Morozov
– Alex Morozov, Commented Jan 15, 2016 at 10:24

gtlambert · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-15 10:21:30Z

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Here is a simple example of how to convert a datetime object to a string:

import datetime
import pytz

x = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 15, 9, 59, 45, 165904, tzinfo=pytz.UTC)
print(datetime.datetime.strftime(x, "%d/%m/%Y"))

Output

15/01/2016

Options for the format string to pass into the strftime() function are in the Python documentation.

answered Jan 15, 2016 at 10:21

gtlambert

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