Time stamped an hour out of sync

Jenan

One thing I noticed is the csv files my code is creating are being time stamped an hour out of sync.

For example, when I save files at 18:44 my local time they are time stamped as 17:44.

I tried to run this to get around it

```

import pandas as pd

import pytz

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

# Adjust the offset

offset_hours = -6 # Mountain Time (UTC-6)

# Save the DataFrame df to 'eikon.csv' with an adjusted timestamp

output_file = 'eikon.csv'

timestamp = datetime.now() + timedelta(hours=offset_hours)

df.to_csv(output_file, index=False)

print(f"DataFrame saved to '{output_file}' with Mountain Time timestamp:", timestamp)

# Create the 'cam' DataFrame and save it to 'cam.csv'

cam_output_file = 'cam.csv'

cam_df = df[['TICKER', 'CAM']].copy()

cam_df.columns = ['ticker', 'cam']

cam_df.to_csv(cam_output_file, index=False)

print(f"'cam' DataFrame saved to '{cam_output_file}' with Mountain Time timestamp:", timestamp)

```

But it had no effect. I'm not seeing anything unusual in the logs or debugging console to indicate the cause of this.

This is not a major issue as it does not specifically affect my code, but it may have unforeseen effects on others, so I'm bringing it to your attention.

nick.zincone

Hi @Jenan

Instead of hard-coding the offset, try this:

mountain_time = utc_time.astimezone(pytz.timezone("America/Denver"))

Should be 7 hours difference MST and 6 MDT.

Jirapongse

@Jenan

Thank you for reaching out to us.

I ran the following code on CodeBook.

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
offset_hours = -6 # Mountain Time (UTC-6)
now = datetime.now()
timestamp = now + timedelta(hours=offset_hours)
print(f"UTC:\t{now}")
print(f"UTC-6:\t{timestamp}")

The output is:

The value of timestamp is correct (UTC-6).