convert python datetime with timezone to string

Question

I have date time tuples in the format of datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=<UTC>)

How can I convert that into a date time string such as 2008-11-10 17:53:59

I am really just getting held up on the tzinfo part.

strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") works fine without the tzinfo part

'%z' if you are using `python3` http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26165659/python-timezone-z-directive-for-datetime-strptime-not-available — sobolevn, Apr 12 '17 at 23:20
strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") works fine for me. Can you give an example about how the time tuples are constructed and what error you got? — Allen Qin, Apr 13 '17 at 00:19
this would help http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2009/05/converting-time-zones-datetime-objects-python/ — Bijoy, Apr 13 '17 at 03:26
I am getting exactly this from the query datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=) I am not sure how the tuples are created — Brian McCall, Apr 13 '17 at 14:35

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 14 '17 at 15:34

The way you seem to be doing it, would work fine for both timezone aware and naive datetime objects. If you want to also add the timezone to your string, you can simply add add it with %z or %Z, or using the isoformat method:

>>> from datetime import timedelta, datetime, tzinfo

>>> class UTC(tzinfo):
...     def utcoffset(self, dt):
...         return timedelta(0)
... 
...     def dst(self, dt):
...         return timedelta(0)
... 
...     def tzname(self,dt):
...          return "UTC"

>>> source = datetime(2010, 7, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=UTC())
>>> repr(source)
datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=<__main__.UTC object at 0x1054107d0>)

# %Z outputs the tzname
>>> source.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z")
'2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC'

# %z outputs the UTC offset in the form +HHMM or -HHMM
>>> source.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z")
'2010-07-01 00:00:00 +0000'

# isoformat outputs the offset as +HH:MM or -HH:MM
>>> source.isoformat()
'2010-07-01T00:00:00+00:00'

I didn't know about the `isoformat` method, very useful indeed. Thanks for sharing — J0ANMM, Jun 03 '19 at 16:20

convert python datetime with timezone to string

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