Problem with date in Python

I'm developing a web application and would like to display user's current date basing on his timezone. Here is my code:

userTimezone = -5 #EAST is positive, WEST negative 
utcTimestamp = time.mktime(time.gmtime())
userDate = time.gmtime(utcTimestamp+userTimezone*60*60)

I think the prob开发者_如何学JAVAlem is with gmtime() since it does some conversions automatically. If I could, I would replace gmtime with function which doesn't convert anything, but haven't found any.

you are probably looking for time.localtime(seconds). gmtime always returns utc time.

Set time.timezone to the user's timezone, then display it using localtime().