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python - Local solar time function from UTC and longitude

I'm wondering if there is a python function/module that calculates the local time after midnight (or local solar time) given the UTC time and longitude? It doesn't need to take into account daylight saving time.

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Using ephem's sidereal_time() method:

import ephem # pip install pyephem (on Python 2)
             # pip install ephem   (on Python 3)

def solartime(observer, sun=ephem.Sun()):
    sun.compute(observer)
    # sidereal time == ra (right ascension) is the highest point (noon)
    hour_angle = observer.sidereal_time() - sun.ra
    return ephem.hours(hour_angle + ephem.hours('12:00')).norm  # norm for 24h

Note: ephem.hours is a float number that represents an angle in radians and converts to/from a string as "hh:mm:ss.ff".

For comparison, here's the "utc + longitude" formula:

import math
from datetime import timedelta

def ul_time(observer):
    utc_dt = observer.date.datetime()
    longitude = observer.long
    return utc_dt + timedelta(hours=longitude / math.pi * 12)

Example

from datetime import datetime

# "solar time" for some other cities
for name in ['Los Angeles', 'New York', 'London',
             'Paris', 'Moscow', 'Beijing', 'Tokyo']:
    city = ephem.city(name)
    print("%-11s %11s %s" % (name, solartime(city),
                             ul_time(city).strftime('%T')))

# set date, longitude manually
o = ephem.Observer()
o.date = datetime(2012, 4, 15, 1, 0, 2) # some utc time
o.long = '00:00:00.0' # longitude (you could also use a float (radians) here)
print("%s %s" % (solartime(o), ul_time(o).strftime('%T')))

Output

Los Angeles 14:59:34.11 14:44:30
New York    17:56:31.27 17:41:27
London      22:52:02.04 22:36:58
Paris       23:01:56.56 22:46:53
Moscow       1:23:00.33 01:07:57
Beijing      6:38:09.53 06:23:06
Tokyo        8:11:17.81 07:56:15
1:00:00.10 01:00:01

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