Receiving inaccurate time from python time module?

Question

I am a beginner in programming and I was messing around with the time module in python, as I recently got a raspberry pi and want to start doing some projects. I imported the time module, and just made a loop to print out the time every second. The code runs correctly, but the time given is not accurate to my location. Currently, it is the 14th and a Friday, around 9 pm, but it is returning the 15th a Saturday, with 0 hours and 10 minutes. Does anyone know how I can obtain the correct time?

I tried a couple of the different functions to receive the current time like .localtime() and .gmtime() but they're all the same.


import time 


while(True):

    thisTime = time.gmtime()

    print(time.asctime(thisTime))

    time.sleep(1)

As for setting the clock correctly on raspberry it is rather offtopic on Stack Overflow — Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні, Jun 15 '19 at 04:33
For that the best place is https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/ — Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні, Jun 15 '19 at 04:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 15 '19 at 04:08

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Go ahead and check out this post, I think this is your solution:

Python get current time in right timezone

So assuming your computer's time is configured correctly, you could use this:

from datetime import datetime
naive_dt = datetime.now()

answered Jun 15 '19 at 04:08

Mark Pichler

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '19 at 04:26

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It's unclear what else you've tried, although the following should work:

localtime = time.localtime()
print(time.asctime(localtime))

↳ https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.localtime

answered Jun 15 '19 at 04:26

l'L'l

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Receiving inaccurate time from python time module?

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