ISO time (ISO 8601) in Python

Local to ISO 8601:

import datetime
datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()
>>> 2020-03-20T14:28:23.382748

UTC to ISO 8601:

import datetime
datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat()
>>> 2020-03-20T01:30:08.180856

Local to ISO 8601 without microsecond:

import datetime
datetime.datetime.now().replace(microsecond=0).isoformat()
>>> 2020-03-20T14:30:43

UTC to ISO 8601 with TimeZone information (Python 3):

import datetime
datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat()
>>> 2020-03-20T01:31:12.467113+00:00

UTC to ISO 8601 with Local TimeZone information without microsecond (Python 3):

import datetime
datetime.datetime.now().astimezone().replace(microsecond=0).isoformat()
>>> 2020-03-20T14:31:43+13:00

Local to ISO 8601 with TimeZone information (Python 3):

import datetime
datetime.datetime.now().astimezone().isoformat()
>>> 2020-03-20T14:32:16.458361+13:00

Notice there is a bug when using astimezone() on utc time. This gives an incorrect result:

datetime.datetime.utcnow().astimezone().isoformat() #Incorrect result

For Python 2, see and use pytz.

Here is what I use to convert to the XSD datetime format:

from datetime import datetime
datetime.now().replace(microsecond=0).isoformat()
# You get your ISO string

I came across this question when looking for the XSD date time format (xs:dateTime). I needed to remove the microseconds from isoformat.

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