Timezone

[Tim Daneliuk]

Richard van de Stadt wrote:
> 
> I run stuff on systems in various timezones.
> I need to display when certain files have been updated.
> ctime (time()) shows the current date and time, but without the timezone
> that you get to see e.g. by Unix' date command.
> 
> Is there a (Python) way to find out the timezone?
> 
> Richard.

import time

time.tzname

...will return a tuple containing the strings which name the timezone

time.timezone

...will return the offset from UTC in seconds

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Tim Daneliuk
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