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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Where on Earth do Timezones Make Sense? Timezone Strings

Posted by Rungano Matonda
Rungano Matonda
3,237 Points

Create a function named to_timezone that takes a timezone name as a string. Convert starter to that timezone using pytz

Hey guys, I really need your help...I'm getting bummer and i don't know what is the problem:(

timezone.py 
import datetime

import pytz

fmt = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z%z"

starter = pytz.utc.localize(datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 23, 29))

def to_timezone(tz):

    my_tz = pytz.timezone(tz)
    return starter.astimezone(tz)

1 Answer

Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points
Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points

Your issue is the last line in the function itself. You are passing in the argument into it as the timezone instead of a valid timezone... You can do these on one line by changing the function block to read:

def to_timezone(tz):
    return starter.astimezone(pytz.timezone(tz))
Rungano Matonda
Rungano Matonda
3,237 Points

it's now saying ptyz is not defined!

Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points
Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points

ptyz is not defined, its pytz

Rungano Matonda
Rungano Matonda
3,237 Points

Oh how silly of me... :(...thanks a lot Justin!