Timezone problem

[marcinpr]

There is a problem to convert times received from get_times() to format "%H:%M:%S %Z" in other time zones than UTC.
I assume that:
sunrise = get_times(date, lat, lon)['sunrise']
saves the sunrise time with local zone instead of UTC.
Maybe the objects returned by get_times should have timezone (UTC) specified?
Please compare:
print(get_times(date, lat, lon)['sunrise'].strftime('%H:%M:%S %Z'))
print(datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S %Z'))
Both gives the answer without timezone info.

How to print the sunrise time, adding timezone info?

[marcinpr]

I have found a solution to my question from the last sentence:

sunrise_aware = pytz.timezone('UTC').localize(suncalc.get_times(date, lon, lat)['sunrise'])
print(sunrise_aware.astimezone().strftime("%H:%M:%S %Z"))

Is there any simpler solution?

[kylebarron]

I don't know; timezones are hard! If you'd like to improve the docs, a PR is welcome

[Bliph]

I do not know if this is "simpler", but I always like to keep timestamps in epoch. After all, this is just a number.

from datetime import datetime, timezone
import time
from suncalc import get_position, get_times

lon = 7.0
lat = 58.0

# Get "today"
utc_now = datetime.fromtimestamp(time.time(), timezone.utc)

# Extract sunrise "today"
solar_times = get_times(date=utc_now, lng=lon, lat=lat)

# Extract sunrise epoch [s]
ts_sunrise_epoch = solar_times.get("sunrise").timestamp()

# Convert to local timezone
local_zone = datetime.now().astimezone().tzinfo
ts_sunrise_local = datetime.fromtimestamp(ts_sunrise_epoch, local_zone)

print(ts_sunrise_local.isoformat())