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GCPL Treehouse1
6,054 PointsTrouble with pytz Format Challenge not accepting Timezone
Anyone else having trouble getting this Challenge to accept the answer. I checked my work in the workspace, and it seems correct. The code returns: 10-20 22:29 PDT-0700, but I keep getting an error that 'local' is not the right timezone. Is it a DST issue?
import datetime
import pytz
fmt = '%m-%d %H:%M %Z%z'
starter = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 4, 29)
local = starter.astimezone(pytz.timezone('US/Pacific'))
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 PointsHey GCPL Treehouse1, you are close, just reverse the order to use the localize method of a given time zone:
This was shown at 5:25 in the previous video
local = pytz.timezone('US/Pacific').localize(starter)
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!
GCPL Treehouse1
6,054 PointsGCPL Treehouse1
6,054 PointsAwesome, thanks! That was killing me. Trying to make sense of the output: the correct code keeps the datetime as is, but places it in Pacific Time, while my old code was taking a datetime, treating it as utc, and changing it to the associated Pacific time?