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Datetime returns wrong time in unix

I have a wired situation here with returning the time in unix format.

I have this function:

def get_today_date():
nowDate = str(datetime.datetime.utcnow().date())
unix_date = time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime(nowDate, "%Y-%m-%d").timetuple())
return (unix_date)


it's straightforward when I print the value of "nowDate" -> it gives me the right value I want (ex: 7/29/2018 00:00:00 UTC) which is correct. But when I change the format from Unix timestamp to date format and get only the date without time, It gives me (7/28/2018).

I've took the value in unix and checked it, it gives me (7/28/2018 21:00:00). Why?

My laptop is in a UTC +3 timezone.

Did something go wrong in the conversion? Or its an internal error in my laptop makes the output wrong?

nowDate

'7/29/2018 00:00:00 UTC'

'2018-07-29'

unix_date

7/28/2018 21:00:00

1532815200.0

datetime.date.today()

1 Answer
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If you're looking for today's date/time, use datetime.datetime.now(), if you need just the date, use datetime.datetime.today() it's automatically converted into your timezone.

datetime.datetime.now()

datetime.datetime.today()

If you play with UTC-based functions, you'll get 3 hours offset for your location, which sometimes might result in time being 21:00 of previous day instead of midnight of the next one -- that's quite reasonable =)

UTC

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