Convert UTC datetime string to local datetime

Question

I\'ve never had to convert time to and from UTC. Recently had a request to have my app be timezone aware, and I\'ve been running myself in circles. Lots of information on co

Answer 1

Consolidating the answer from franksands into a convenient method.

import calendar
import datetime

def to_local_datetime(utc_dt):
    """
    convert from utc datetime to a locally aware datetime according to the host timezone

    :param utc_dt: utc datetime
    :return: local timezone datetime
    """
    return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(calendar.timegm(utc_dt.timetuple()))