How to get python to display current time (eastern)

Question

How can I get Python to display the time in eastern?

I\'ve looked over the python documentation but it\'s pretty confusing. I\'m using Python 3.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you need the entire timestamp:

import datetime
print (datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.timedelta(hours=4))

If you just need the date in YYYYmmdd format

print (datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.timedelta(hours=4)).strftime('%Y%m%d')