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Calculate GMT Time Zone using Python
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# Copyright 2020 Alvaro Bartolome @ alvarobartt in GitHub | |
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# First of all, calculate the difference between your local date and the GMT date (which corresponds to the GMT 00:00 timezone) | |
diff = datetime.strptime(strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M', localtime()), '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M') - \ | |
datetime.strptime(strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M', gmtime()), '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M') | |
# Then calculate both the hour and minutes difference between both datetime.datetime object, which now is a datetime.timedelta object | |
hour_diff = int(diff.total_seconds() / 3600) | |
min_diff = int(diff.total_seconds() % 3600) * 60 | |
if hour_diff != 0: | |
time_zone = "GMT " + ('+' if hour_diff > 0 else '') + str(hour_diff) + ":" + ('00' if min_diff < 30 else '30') | |
else: | |
time_zone = "GMT 00:00" |
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