datetime - How to get an UTC date string in Python?

Question

(This question already has answers here): question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17822158/how-to-get-an-utc-date-string-in-python

Answer 1

from datetime import datetime, timezone
datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%d")

Or as Davidism pointed out, this would also work:

from datetime import datetime
datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y%m%d")

I prefer the first approach, as it gets you in the habit of using timezone aware datetimes - but as J.F. Sebastian pointed out - it requires Python 3.2+. The second approach will work in both 2.7 and 3.2 branches.