I have a date and I need to make it time zone aware.
local_tz = timezone('Asia/Tokyo')
start_date = '2012-09-27'
start_date = datetime.strptime(start_date, "%Y-%m-%d")
start_date = start_date.astimezone(local_tz)
now_utc = datetime.now(timezone('UTC'))
local_now = now_utc.astimezone(local_tz)
I need to find if this is true:
print start_date>local_now
But I get this error.
start_date = start_date.astimezone(local_tz)
ValueError: astimezone() cannot be applied to a naive datetime
I convert utc to tokyo with no issue. I need to make start_date timezone aware ad well in tokyo.
Thanks
For pytz
timezones, use their .localize()
method to turn a naive datetime
object into one with a timezone:
start_date = local_tz.localize(start_date)
For timezones without a DST transition, the .replace()
method to attach a timezone to a naive datetime
object should normally also work:
start_date = start_date.replace(tzinfo=local_tz)
See the localized times and date arithmetic of the pytz documentation for more details.