How to set the correct timezone to get a isoformat datetime string in Python?

Question

I need to assign to a variable the current datetime string in isoformat like the following:

  2018-09-27T16:19:16+02:00

What I'm doing is:

  import datetime
  ....

  print(datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc, microsecond=0).isoformat())

But this is going to print the string with utc tz:

2018-09-28T07:05:35+00:00

Not clear yet to me what's the clean way I should change tzinfo param to set wanted tz to UTC+02:00 ?

Thanks

Lanting · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-28 07:19:41Z

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utcnow() already gives you the the time at +00:00, if you'd like to recieve the time at a specific timezone, you should provide the timezone as an argument to now([tz]).

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html

>>> import datetime as dt
>>> dt.datetime.now(tz = dt.timezone(offset = dt.timedelta(hours = 2))).replace(microsecond = 0).isoformat()
'2018-09-28T09:20:19+02:00'

answered Sep 28, 2018 at 7:19

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koalaok Over a year ago

Thanks, I was missing the part : tz=dt.timezone(offset=dt.timedelta(hours=2))

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