Date = dt.datetime.today().date()
I have a date here but it's in UTC, for example at PST 2022-09-18 5PM it will turn into 2022-09-19, but I want to convert it into PST time.
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50802069/convert-datetime-to-pst-timezone try like this – Vitaliy Korolyk Sep 18 '22 at 21:01
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You need to use a timezone aware datetime - a naive datetime (like datetime.date) has no timezone information.
So, use a datetime.datetime with a tzinfo, and then you can localize to UTC and convert to Pacific time:
from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import tz
pst = tz.gettz('America/Los_Angeles')
dt = datetime(2016, 1, 1, tzinfo=tz.UTC)
pst_dt = dt.astimezone(pst)
This gives you a datetime representing 2016-01-01 00:00:00 in the Pacific timezone.
You can of course start out with a naive datetime and use replace to add a UTC timezone:
dt = datetime(2016, 1, 1).replace(tzinfo=tz.UTC)
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check out the [zoneinfo](https://docs.python.org/3/library/zoneinfo.html) module. – FObersteiner Sep 19 '22 at 06:59