How to Change the time zone in Python logging?

Question

I would like to change the timestamp in the log file so that it reflects my current time zone so that i can debug errors at a faster rate,

is it possible that i can cha

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/python

from datetime import datetime
from pytz import timezone
import logging

def timetz(*args):
    return datetime.now(tz).timetuple()

tz = timezone('Asia/Shanghai') # UTC, Asia/Shanghai, Europe/Berlin

logging.Formatter.converter = timetz

logging.basicConfig(
    format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s",
    level=logging.INFO,
    datefmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
)

logging.info('Timezone: ' + str(tz))

Using pytz to define a timezone relative to UTC.
Based on the example by: secsilm