Python datetime and daylight saving

Question

My code uses datetime.now() to get current date and time. The problem is that time is 1 hour behind due to daylight saving.

How can I get "real" current time (same I see in system's clock)

Thanks

Answer 1

If you just want the current system time, you could try the time module. time.time() would give you a unix timestamp of the current system time.

Edit : In response to the OP's comment

Use time.strftime() and time.localtime() to interface with datetime objects and your DB

Answer 2

You should read python's datetime doc up to section 8.1 where an example is given on how to achieve what you want.

from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta, datetime
ZERO = timedelta(0)
HOUR = timedelta(hours=1)

# A UTC class.
class UTC(tzinfo):
    """UTC"""

    def utcoffset(self, dt):
        return ZERO

    def tzname(self, dt):
        return "UTC"

    def dst(self, dt):
        return ZERO
utc = UTC()
datetime.now(utc)

Answer 3

I might be completely off, but in case the time in the BIOS your computer is set to UTC (thus the difference of one hour to local time)

datetime.datetime.utcnow()

should yield the time you're looking for.