AWS Lambda Local Time Fix

2022-03-22 63 words One minute

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I use this code snippet when I need to see the actual local time.
For example when you need to use a “CreationTime” tag on some resources.

import json
import os
import time

#
vLocalTimeZone='US/Eastern'
#

def lambda_handler(event, context):
	# Run time in UTC 
	vNowUTC=time.strftime('%X %x %z')
	print(vNowUTC)
	os.environ['TZ'] = vLocalTimeZone
	time.tzset()
	# Run time in local tz
	vNowLocal=time.strftime('%X %x %z')
	print(vNowLocal)