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  utcnow Nick the Gr33k <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2012-09-17 07:25 +0300
    Re: utcnow Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-09-17 14:48 +1000

#29362 — utcnow

Hello is there a better way of writing this:

date = ( datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(hours=3) 
).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

something like:

date = datetime.datetime.utcnow(hours=3).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

i prefer it if it could be written as this.

Also what about dayligh savings time?

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Nick the Gr33k <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello is there a better way of writing this:
>
> date = ( datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(hours=3)
> ).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
>
> something like:
>
> date = datetime.datetime.utcnow(hours=3).strftime( '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
>
> i prefer it if it could be written as this.

Break long complicated statements into simpler statements. You might
need to get used to naming your intermediate results.

    now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
    later = now + datetime.timedelta(hours=3)
    timestamp_text = later.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

> Also what about dayligh savings time?

What about it? What has your reading of the ‘datetime’ module
documentation taught you?

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Ben Finney

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