How to print a datetime as UTC string

Question

I have something like

from dateutil import parser
my_datetime = parser.parse("2020-06-19 12:10:10.12345+02")

I want to print this as 2020-06-19 10:10:10.12345Z

Does this answer your question? [Convert UTC datetime string to local datetime](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4770297/convert-utc-datetime-string-to-local-datetime) — Chase, Jun 19 '20 at 16:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '20 at 16:25

You can use dateutil.tz to access timezones and then express a given date with that timezone with .astimezone().

from dateutil.parser import parse
from dateutil.tz import tzutc

my_datetime = parse("2020-06-19 12:10:10.12345+02")

print(my_datetime.astimezone(tzutc()))

How to print a datetime as UTC string

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