Hi,
I am facing an issue with datetime module with some timezones (especially
day light savings).
Given the date and the timezone, I want to convert it to the UTC date and
time.
Here is the snippet:
import datetime
import mx.DateTime
from dateutil import zoneinfo
def parse_date(date, tzname):
feed_time = mx.DateTime.strptime(date, '%d-%m-%Y')
feed_datetime = datetime.datetime(*feed_time.timetuple()[:6],
tzinfo=zoneinfo.gettz(tzname))
feed_time = mx.DateTime.DateTime(*feed_datetime.utctimetuple()[:6])
return feed_time
>>>parse_date('28-03-2010', 'Australia/Melbourne')
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2010-03-27 13:00:00.00' at 7f965cf55d98>
>>> parse_date('29-03-2010', 'Australia/Melbourne')
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2010-03-28 14:00:00.00' at 7f965cf673f8>
which says day light savings ended on 28th March (seeing at the outputs,
there is a difference of 1 hr in time) but it actually ended on April 4th
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=152
for 'America/Anchorage' the same code works fine (DST starts on 14th March
02:00 hours)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=18
>>> parse_date('14-03-2010', 'America/Anchorage')
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2010-03-14 09:00:00.00' at 87fef8>
>>> parse_date('15-03-2010', 'America/Anchorage')
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2010-03-15 08:00:00.00' at 87fef8>
What am i missing here?
Please help.
Thanks Kushal.
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