# tz.py - example of datetime objects with time zones # -*- encoding: utf8 -*- # # Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Federico Di Gregorio # # psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser 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 dsn:", 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.execute("SELECT * FROM test_tz") d = curs.fetchone()[0] curs.execute("INSERT INTO test_tz VALUES (%s)", (d,)) print "Inserted SELECTed timestamp:", d print "Time zone:", d.tzinfo.tzname(d), "offset:", d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) 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()