Setting timezone in Python

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Is it possible with Python to set the timezone just like this in PHP   date default timezone set  Europe London     Year   date  y     Month   date  m     Day   date  d     Hour   date  H     Minute   date  i      I can t really install any other modules etc as I m using shared web hosting   Any ideas

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For windows you can use   Running Windows command prompt commands in python   import os os system  tzutil  s  Central Standard Time      In windows command prompt try   This gives current timezone      tzutil  g    This gives a list of timezones      tzutil  l   This will set the timezone      tzutil  s  Central America Standard Time    For further reference  http   woshub com how-to-set-timezone-from-command-prompt-in-windows

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gt  gt  gt  import os  time  gt  gt  gt  time strftime   X  x  Z    12 45 20 08 19 09 CDT   gt  gt  gt  os environ  TZ      Europe London   gt  gt  gt  time tzset    gt  gt  gt  time strftime   X  x  Z    18 45 39 08 19 09 BST    To get the specific values you ve listed    gt  gt  gt  year   time strftime   Y    gt  gt  gt  month   time strftime   m    gt  gt  gt  day   time strftime   d    gt  gt  gt  hour   time strftime   H    gt  gt  gt  minute   time strftime   M     See here for a complete list of directives  Keep in mind that the strftime   function will always return a string  not an integer or other type

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Be aware that running   import os os system  tzutil  s   Central Standard Time        will alter Windows system time  NOT just the local python environment time  so is definitley NOT the same as    gt  gt  gt  os environ  TZ      Europe London   gt  gt  gt  time tzset     which will only set in the current environment time  in Unix only

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It s not an answer  but     To get datetime components individually  better use datetime timetuple   time   datetime now   time timetuple    - gt  time struct time       tm year 2014  tm mon 9  tm mday 7        tm hour 2  tm min 38  tm sec 5        tm wday 6  tm yday 250  tm isdst -1      It s now easy to get the parts   ts   time timetuple   ts tm year ts tm mon ts tm mday ts tm hour ts tm min ts tm sec

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You can use pytz as well   import datetime import pytz def utcnow        return datetime datetime now tz pytz utc  utcnow      datetime datetime 2020  8  15  14  45  19  182703  tzinfo  lt UTC gt   utcnow   isoformat       2020-08-15T14 45 21 982600 00 00

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