datetime.strptime() not returning correct timezone info, only recognizes UTC as a proper time zone name

Question

When I run:

datetime.strptime('UTC', '%Z')

It compiles just fine, because as specified here the representation for time zone abbreviations is '%Z'

But if I run...

datetime.strptime('EST', '%Z')

I get a ValueError, 'EST' does not match the format '%Z', even though like before 'EST' is even provided as an example for %Z at the same link I provided above

What am I doing wrong?

Are you using Python 3.5 or an earlier version? strptime has changed once or twice, it started out nearly useless for dealing with timezones and I don't think it's improved much. — Mark Ransom
– Mark Ransom, Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 6:19

Zaman Afzal · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-22 06:41:40Z

from datetime import datetime, timedelta from pytz import timezone import pytz eastern = timezone('US/Eastern') loc_dt = eastern.localize(datetime(2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, 0)) print(loc_dt.strftime('%Z'))

For refrence Please have a look at this link (http://pytz.sourceforge.net/)!

neverwalkaloner · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-22 06:25:28Z

If you need to work with timezones use pytz

from pytz import timezone str(datetime.datetime.now(timezone('EST')))

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