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I'm attempting to convert time.time() to the local time. Reading python datetime to unix timestamp, I understand there's some limitations given that the timestamp is in UTC. However, in lieu of just doing:

time.time() - (6*60*60)

Is there a way to convert from UTC to CST and get the CST Unix timestamp?

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You can use the datetime module to get the current local time, and then convert that to a UNIX timestamp:

import datetime
import calendar

now = calendar.timegm(datetime.datetime.now().timetuple())

Or on Python 3.3+:

import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now().timestamp()
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