Convert any epoch to human readable format for system timezone

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This answer explains how to convert any given epoch to a non-localized datetime.

This answer explains how to convert the epoch for right now to a human readable format for a pre-defined timezone.

This answer explains how to get the current system timezone, but not with pyzt, which is used in the human readable format answer.

How do I convert any given epoch to a human readable format for the system timezone?

Did you read [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/18569497/634824) which describes the [tzlocal module](https://github.com/regebro/tzlocal)? — Matt Johnson-Pint, Jul 16 '14 at 15:49
He's still asking for a lot of work to be done that doesn't appear in his code. `pytz` isn't even imported. — Chris Redford, Jul 16 '14 at 18:12

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '14 at 18:32

time.strftime combined with time.localtime should do the trick. The %Z option will output the system timezone. For example:

>>> print time.strftime("%Z - %Y/%m/%d, %H:%M:%S", time.localtime(time.time()))
CDT - 2014/07/15, 13:32:19

Here, you can replace time.time() with your chosen epoch.

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