How to get utc time from time string in python?

Question

In my application, i have two select options. one is for hour selection and another for minute selection. So when i fetch select option values i get values as time string like '12:34'. and I want to convert that time string to UTC time.

So, Can anyone please suggest me that how to get UTC time from timestring?

Thank you.

You need to know the timezone to calculate the UTC time; and also the format of the time (is it 24 hours - military time or 12 hours ie, AM/PM)? — Burhan Khalid, Jul 13 '17 at 06:56
Here is a link [How to get an UTC date string in Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/17822273/6521550) discussing similar concept. — Anup Kumar Gupta, Jul 13 '17 at 06:56
@BurhanKhalid timeformat is 24 hours and about timezone, does python provide any functionality to get timezone info from system time? — Nikunj, Jul 13 '17 at 07:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '17 at 08:11

You don't have enough information to do that because you need to know the offset of your timezone from UTC.

But to get you started

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
offset = -2 # I live in Central European Summer Time, so I am 2 hours east of UTC
myutctime = datetime.strptime(timestring,'%H:%M') + timedelta(hours=offset)

How to get utc time from time string in python?

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