AWS Glue job, Python script for datetime.today().strftime(%y/%m/%d) getting UTC date & time?

Question

AWS Glue job, Python script for datetime.today().strftime(%y/%m/%d) getting UTC date & time NOT USA date & time. Basically tomorrow date & time, if you run above function. How to get US date & time?

Answer 1

If you want the current time in UTC with your given format %y/%m/%d , you can use the following:

from datetime import datetime

time_now_utc = datetime.utcnow().strftime("%y/%m/%d")

If you want the current time at a different timezone, you can use pytz lib, and do the following:

import pytz

tz = pytz.timezone('America/New_York')
time_now_ny = datetime.now(tz).strftime("%y/%m/%d")

Since USA has multiple timezones, select the specific region you want. To list all the regions in pytz , run the following:

>>> import pytz
>>> pytz.all_timezones
['Africa/Abidjan', 'Africa/Accra', 'Africa/Addis_Ababa', ...]