I am new to Python and am learning about the time module. I was messing around with the module trying to write a program that outputs either UTC or Local time depending on the user’s input, however when I run the program newtime = input("Would you like to see Local or UTC time? ") executes, but not the if statements.

import time

newtime = input("Would you like to see Local or UTC time? ")
#newtime stores user input
if newtime.lower == "utc":
    #If newtime lowercase equals to utc this if line will run
    print(time.strftime("The current time and date in UTC is: %c ", time.gmtime()))
    #strftime formats the struct_time from gmtime() into something more readable
elif newtime.lower == "local":
    #If newtime lowercase equals to local this elif line will run
    print(time.strftime("The current time and date in local is: %c", time.localtime()))
    #strftime formats the struct_time from localtime() into something more readable
else:
    print("Input not recognized, please type 'Local' or 'UTC'")
    #If neither local or utc are inputed this prints

I thought the problem might be newtime but that wasn’t it. I originally had newtime = input("Would you like to see Local or UTC time? ").lower because I’m new to programming but that wasn’t it either.

>Solution :

You need to call the functions in your if statements:

newtime = input("Would you like to see Local or UTC time? ")

if newtime.lower() == "utc":
    ...
elif newtime.lower() == "local":
    ...
else:
    ...

Otherwise you are just doing:

if str.lower == 'utc':
    ...

Which will always be False because a function is never equal to a string