How can I get or print current datetime of GMT time zone in Python?

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Here I print UTC time zone's current datetime. I want current GMT time zone's datetime by this method. How can I?

   import datetime

   dt_utcnow = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
   print(dt_utcnow)

Output

   2020-08-31 09:06:26.661323
gmt utc datetime python
2 Answers

You can use the gmtime() of time module to achieve this:

from datetime import datetime
from time import gmtime, strftime

now = datetime.now()
current_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
print("Current Time =", current_time)
print("Your Time Zone is GMT", strftime("%z", gmtime()))
user_135050980

At first, you need to import pytz module (you need to install it using CMD: pip install pytz). Pytz library allows you to work with time zones.

To make code clear, we will save timezone into the variable GMT like this:

GMT = pytz.timezone("Etc/GMT")

If you want to now all possible timezones, you can just print out pytz.all_timezones. Now, there are several ways how to solve your problem, but I will show you 2 of them:

  1. Localize your UTC time into GMT: dt_gmt = GMT.localize(dt_utcnow)

  2. Convert your time into GMT: dt_gmt = dt_utcnow.astimezone(gmt)

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