I'm trying to convert a UNIX time stamp to UTC+9. I've been searching for hours and it's all very confusing what with the different libraries etc
Here's what I've got so far
from datetime import datetime from pytz import timezone import datetime time = 1481079600 utc_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time)#.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') print utc_time.strftime(fmt) tz = timezone('Japan') print tz.localize(utc_time).strftime(fmt) This just prints the same time, what am I doing wrong
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pip install pendulum import pendulum t = 1481079600 pendulum.from_timestamp(t).to_datetime_string() >>> '2016-12-07 03:00:00' And now to change it to your timezone super quick and easy!
pendulum.from_timestamp(t, 'Asia/Tokyo').to_datetime_string() >>> '2016-12-07 12:00:00' 
Your utc_time datetime is naive - it has no timezone associated with it. localize assigns a timezone to it, it doesn't convert between timezones. The simplest way to do that is probably to construct a timezone-aware datetime:
import pytz utc_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time, pytz.utc) Then convert to the timezone you want when you're ready to display it:
print utc_time.astimezone(tz).strftime(fmt) 
tz = timezone('Japan') in the question. You do of course have to know what time zone you want to localize to.