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

Posted by harveylim
harveylim
1,870 Points

Why is this not working?

I don't know what is going wrong in this code... this should work fine...

timezone.py 
import datetime

import pytz

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

def to_timezone(timename):
  tmp = pytz.timezone(starter).localize(tmp)
  utc_date = tmp.astimezone(pytz.utc)
  return utc_date.astimezone(tmp)

2 Answers

Boris Ivan Barreto
Boris Ivan Barreto
6,838 Points
Boris Ivan Barreto
Boris Ivan Barreto
6,838 Points

Hi,

From your code: pytz.timezone(starter), I can see that you are trying to create a timezone from a datetime, this is not possible, and then localize tmp, you can only localize a datetime, see the starter variable in the example.

Check my solution:

def to_timezone(zone_name):
    new_zone = pytz.timezone(zone_name)
    return starter.astimezone(new_zone)
Kern Tallett
Kern Tallett
10,012 Points
Kern Tallett
Kern Tallett
10,012 Points

The argument timename isn't being used at all in the function.