Hi I did something I think which is similar
you can get the current time based on time zone like this
import datetime
import pytz
import time
current_time =
datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')).replace(tzinfo=None)
This allowed me to schedule videos to play at a given time
Not sure this is what you need but maybe it helps :-)
*cheers
Andrew
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote:
> no, it's not possible. request.now is always calculated on the server, not
> on the client. That being said, the "today" on the server may not be the
> same today on the clients accessing your page from all the timezones in the
> world....
> e.g. if you're providing some kind of function based on THEIR timezone
> (i.e. "press this button to delete all your appointments today") you really
> need to start fiddling with UTC and timezone differences.
>
>
> On Monday, March 4, 2013 7:08:23 PM UTC+1, jjg0 wrote:
>>
>> I had asked a question about comparing datetimes here:
>> https://groups.google.com/**forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/**
>> web2py/2euU80vV2WE<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/web2py/2euU80vV2WE>
>> The question was answered but I ran into another problem closely related,
>> so I made a sequel. Let's hope we don't have to suffer through a trilogy!
>>
>> Here is what I am doing:
>>
>> I have a model of appointments with a field for the date:
>>
>> .
>> .
>> Field('appointment_date', 'date')
>> .
>> .<other fields>
>>
>> and a controller that should grab all of today's appointments to be
>> printed out:
>>
>> appointment_dates = db(db.appointments.**appointment_date==request.now.**
>> date()).select()
>>
>> Here is the problem:
>>
>> request.now.date() appears to get the time based on the server. So If
>> the server is say 5 hours ahead, once 7:00pm my time hits I'm going to be
>> looking at tomorrows appointments. (server hits midnight, day cycles but
>> I'm still 7:00pm yesterday)
>>
>> When the controller goes to grab the day's appontments, is it possible to
>> somehow replace request.now.date() with the date of the users pc?
>> Otherwise I'm not really sure how else to go about this problem.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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