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I'm working on Google app engine with Python.

I have stored a datetime object in database and fetched it and applied timezone, and I saved it using template. The result is "2011-03-15 16:54:24.398503+09:00", but what I want is: "2011-03-16 01:54:24" (timezone applied string without millisecond - note that day is changed).

How can I do that?

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Once you have the datetime object, use strftime, like so;

from datetime import datetime datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

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Does strftime apply timezone? I just tried but it seems localtime is not applied. I get "2011-03-15 16:54:24" instead of "2011-03-16 01:54:24"
datetime.now() is localtime. datetime.utcnow() returns the UTC compliant form. strftime just specifies the partial output from that datetime object. If you need a specific region timezone you should do something like, import pytz datetime.now(pytz.timezone('Africa/Casablanca')).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
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using strftime is encouraged, but make sure that your localtime is correct. This should be a setting in your app/site assuming you're using django, or you may have to do this manually

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Yes I'm using django. But what do you mean by localtime is correct?
by default the timezone is chicago, there's a line in settings.py where you can set your timezone

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