# tz.py - example of datetime objects with time zones # -*- encoding: latin1 -*- # # Copyright (C) 2004 Federico Di Gregorio # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later # version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License # for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg2 import datetime from psycopg2.tz import ZERO, LOCAL, FixedOffsetTimezone if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dns:", DSN conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) curs = conn.cursor() try: curs.execute("CREATE TABLE test_tz (t timestamp with time zone)") except: conn.rollback() curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_tz") curs.execute("CREATE TABLE test_tz (t timestamp with time zone)") conn.commit() d = datetime.datetime(1971, 10, 19, 22, 30, 0, tzinfo=LOCAL) curs.execute("INSERT INTO test_tz VALUES (%s)", (d,)) print "Inserted timestamp with timezone:", d print "Time zone:", d.tzinfo.tzname(d), "offset:", d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) tz = FixedOffsetTimezone(-5*60, "EST") d = datetime.datetime(1971, 10, 19, 22, 30, 0, tzinfo=tz) curs.execute("INSERT INTO test_tz VALUES (%s)", (d,)) print "Inserted timestamp with timezone:", d print "Time zone:", d.tzinfo.tzname(d), "offset:", d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) curs.tzinfo_factory = FixedOffsetTimezone curs.execute("SELECT * FROM test_tz") for d in curs: u = d[0].utcoffset() or ZERO print "UTC time: ", d[0] - u print "Local time:", d[0] print "Time zone:", d[0].tzinfo.tzname(d[0]), d[0].tzinfo.utcoffset(d[0]) curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_tz") conn.commit()