I want to get the modification date of a file in UTC from Python. The following code returns dates in my Linux configured time zone (GMT-5). I want it in UTC. Or how do I get the os configured time zone to convert it with pytz ? $ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from datetime import datetime >>> import os >>> dt=os.path.getmtime('/home/user/.bashrc') >>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(dt) datetime(2012, 5, 30, 21, 18, 10) Thanks Continue reading...