datetime issue

[pandora.koura at gmail.com]

Τη Κυριακή, 16 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012 6:30:15 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης MRAB έγραψε:
> On 2012-09-16 09:25, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
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> [snip]
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> > date = ( datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(hours=8) ).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
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> > but iam giving +8 hours which is the time difference between texas, us where the server sits and Greece's time.
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> > cant we somehow tell it to use GMT+2 ?
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> > also it would be nice if datetime.datetime.now(GMT+2) can be used.
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> In programming, you need attention to details.
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> My reply didn't use datetime.datetime.now(), it used 
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> datetime.datetime.utcnow().
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> datetime.datetime.now() gives the local time (local to the system on 
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> which it is running).
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> datetime.datetime.utcnow() gives the UTC (GMT) time, which is the same 
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> everywhere.
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> The line should be this:
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> date = (datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(hours=8) 
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> ).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
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> I've also used '%Y' instead of '%y' because I prefer 4 digits for the year.

Cant it be written more easily as:
 date = (datetime.datetime.utcnow(+2)

i know this is not thhe correct syntax but it just needs a way to add GMT+2 hours since utc=gmt