Local time to UTC

[donde321]

I want to switch from local time to UTC using strftime. The code shown below works for 12 hour local time and 24 hour local time. I want to replace the 24 hour local with GMT. The Python reference for time and date using strftime shows %z to do this conversion. But, it doesn't seem to work. Ten's of blogs show all kinds of ways to do this. I would like to use strftime if I could. The else line is the 24 hour local time statement I want to replace.

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def display_time():
	# Collect current time and date
	if(time_format):
		current_time = time.strftime("%I:%M")
	else:
		current_time = time.strftime("%H:%M")   

[DougieLawson]

Try this

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from time import gmtime, localtime, strftime
utc = strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z", gmtime())
local = strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z", localtime())
print local, utc

I couldn't get %z # lower case zed to work.

[donde321]

Hey Dougie, You sure helped me today. All other methods didn't seem to work.
Thanks so much. I only needed the hours and minutes, in local and gmt. So removed the others. Good Day!