title: How to get UTC time given timezone?
body: <p>I am in the US and I want to get the UTC time (without the effect of Daylight Saving Time) for a piece of code:</p>
  <pre><code>localtime = strftime(&quot;%m%d%y%H%M&quot;, gmtime())
  </code></pre>
  <p>Right now that code give me time in Greenwich, England. I know that I have a time offset of -8 (GMT -8). How can I get the UTC time to a specific timezone? (using Python library, not casting the hour to integer, - 8, and than convert it back)</p>