How to get UTC from timezone?

Question

How to get UTC from timezone with python?

Timezone: Asia/Pontianak

From timezone (Asia/Pontianak), will resulted +7, +8 or something like that.

You should try to give an example of your input and how you want the output to be. It helps in getting answers quickly. — XXDIL, Jan 08 '21 at 11:25
But I think this is what you want : [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13020690/get-country-code-for-timezone-using-pytz) — XXDIL, Jan 08 '21 at 11:30
you could try to map all the regions to the UTC code. as there arnt that many. — XXDIL, Jan 08 '21 at 11:35
I've seen a lot of data here: `https://www.countries-of the-world.com/world-time-zones.html` — hansputera, Jan 08 '21 at 11:40
Yes u could extract them all from that site. Try scraping it it you want. — XXDIL, Jan 08 '21 at 11:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '21 at 11:42

import pytz
from datetime import datetime, timezone
get_time = pytz.timezone('Asia/Pontianak').localize(datetime.now())
print(get_time)

Output

2021-01-08 17:41:34.686607+07:00

Now, to get the Timezone result

now_utc = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
print(now_utc)

TERMINATOR · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-08T12:19:04.700

In order to work with timezones in python there is a need to use the pytz Python library.

The first step is to install pytz because it is not a standard library:

pip install pytz

OR:

pip3 install pytz

Then here is the code:

from datetime import datetime
import pytz

UTC = pytz.utc #storing the UTC property for later

time_zone = pytz.timezone('Asia/Pontianak') #get the local timzone for later

local_date_time = datetime.now(time_zone) #Formating the time to Asia/Pontianak
print(local_date_time)
#2021-01-08 18:57:02.691163+07:00

# ...and to UTC:
date_time_utc = local_date_time.astimezone(UTC)
print(date_time_utc)
#2021-01-08 18:57:02.691163+07:00

How to get UTC from timezone?

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