Converting from local -> UTC

[Sebastian "lunar" Wiesner]

Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>:

> En Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:42:37 -0300, Keith Hughitt
> <keith.hughitt at gmail.com> escribi�:
> 
>> I am having a little trouble figuring out how to convert a python
>> datetime to UTC. I have a UTC date (e.g. 2008-07-11 00:00:00). I would
>> like to create a UTC date so that when I send it to MySQL (which
>> treats all dates at local dates by default), it will already have
>> incorporated the proper UTC offset. I've tried looking through the
>> docs http://python.active-venture.com/lib/datetime-datetime.html), but
>> have not had any luck.
> 
> You have to use a "timezone aware" datetime object. If all you want is to
> store an UTC date, the tzinfo demo classes that you can find in the Python
> docs at <http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-tzinfo.html> may be enough.
> A more complete implementation is at <http://pytz.sourceforge.net/>

The python-dateutil package also provide classes to deal with timezone-aware
datetime objects.  See <http://labix.org/python-dateutil>

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