I'm adding UTC time strings to Bitbucket API responses that currently only contain Amsterdam (!) time strings. For consistency with the UTC time strings returned elsewhere, the desired format is 2011-11-03 11:07:04
(followed by +00:00
, but that's not germane).
What's the best way to create such a string (without a microsecond component) from a datetime
instance with a microsecond component?
>>> import datetime
>>> print unicode(datetime.datetime.now())
2011-11-03 11:13:39.278026
I'll add the best option that's occurred to me as a possible answer, but there may well be a more elegant solution.
Edit: I should mention that I'm not actually printing the current time – I used datetime.now
to provide a quick example. So the solution should not assume that any datetime
instances it receives will include microsecond components.