What would be the equivalent of time.ctime() for UTC time?
Currently, if I enter time.ctime() in the interpreter, I get this:
'Mon Feb 5 17:24:48 2018'
This returns the local time and I would like to know how to get time in the same format except in UTC.
Edit: It's time.asctime(time.gmtime())
time.gmtime()
returns an object representing the utctime.
To get it into the same format as time.ctime, you can use time.asctime().
>>> time.asctime(time.gmtime())
'Mon Feb 5 12:03:39 2018'
This should work:
import datetime
utc = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
# datetime.datetime(2018, 2, 5, 12, 2, 56, 678723)
str(utc)
# '2018-02-05 12:05:10.617973'
import datetime
print(datetime.datetime.utcnow())
2018-02-05 12:05:53.329809
Below is the code where you can select any timezone:
from datetime import datetime, timezone
utc_dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
time.asctime(time.gmtime())