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Calculating time differences given daylight savings time using Python

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I am running Python 2.7 and would like to be able to calculate to the second the time difference between now and some future date/time in the same timezone while taking into account daylight savings time. I do not have pytz. Any ideas how to do it?

If it requires having pytz, how would I do it with pytz?

posted Apr 3, 2014 by Jai Prakash

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