Timezone in HH:MM Format

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Jun 18 19:52:07 EDT 2024


On 2024-06-19 00:32, Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov via Python-list wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How can I convert a date, usually datetime.now(), into a format where
> the timezone is in hours:minutes format. I was able to get that format
> in shell:
> 
> $ date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%:z
> 2024-06-18T19:24:09-04:00
> 
> The closest I got in python is
> 
> from datetime import datetime
> from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
> 
> s = datetime.strftime(datetime.now(ZoneInfo("America/New_York")),
> "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")
> print(s)
> 
> This prints the same as the shell command above except the last column:
> 2024-06-18T19:28:56-0400
> 
Starting from Python 3.12, you can use "%:z" in the format string. For 
earlier versions of Python, you need to do some string slicing.


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