Display the time in a different time zone

A simpler method:

from datetime import datetimefrom pytz import timezone    south_africa = timezone('Africa/Johannesburg')sa_time = datetime.now(south_africa)print sa_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S')

You could use the pytz library:

>>> from datetime import datetime>>> import pytz>>> utc = pytz.utc>>> utc.zone'UTC'>>> eastern = pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')>>> eastern.zone'US/Eastern'>>> amsterdam = pytz.timezone('Europe/Amsterdam')>>> fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z%z'>>> loc_dt = eastern.localize(datetime(2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, 0))>>> print loc_dt.strftime(fmt)2002-10-27 06:00:00 EST-0500>>> ams_dt = loc_dt.astimezone(amsterdam)>>> ams_dt.strftime(fmt)'2002-10-27 12:00:00 CET+0100'

Python 3.9: use zoneinfo from the standard lib:

from datetime import datetime, timezonefrom zoneinfo import ZoneInfo# Israel and US/Pacific time:now_Israel = datetime.now(ZoneInfo('Israel'))now_Pacific = datetime.now(ZoneInfo('US/Pacific'))print(f"Israeli time {now_Israel.isoformat(timespec='seconds')}")print(f"Pacific time {now_Pacific.isoformat(timespec='seconds')}")# Israeli time 2021-03-26T18:09:18+03:00# Pacific time 2021-03-26T08:09:18-07:00# for reference, local time and UTC:now_UTC = datetime.now(tz=timezone.utc)now_local = datetime.now().astimezone()print(f"Local time   {now_local.isoformat(timespec='seconds')}")print(f"UTC          {now_UTC.isoformat(timespec='seconds')}")# Local time   2021-03-26T16:09:18+01:00 # I'm on Europe/Berlin# UTC          2021-03-26T15:09:18+00:00

Note: there's a deprecation shim for pytz.

older versions of Python 3: you can either use zoneinfo via the backports module or use dateutil instead. dateutil's tz.gettz follows the same semantics as zoneinfo.ZoneInfo:

from dateutil.tz import gettznow_Israel = datetime.now(gettz('Israel'))now_Pacific = datetime.now(gettz('US/Pacific'))print(f"Israeli time {now_Israel.isoformat(timespec='seconds')}")print(f"Pacific time {now_Pacific.isoformat(timespec='seconds')}")# Israeli time 2021-03-26T18:09:18+03:00# Pacific time 2021-03-26T08:09:18-07:00