Show a UTC Time in Another Zone

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Write in_zone(utc_dt, offset_hours) that takes a UTC-aware datetime and an integer offset (e.g. 5.5 for IST) and returns the wall-clock string 'HH:MM' in that zone, using timezone(timedelta(hours=offset_hours)) and astimezone — no pytz.

Examples

Example 1

Input

in_zone(datetime(2026, 1, 1, 12, 0, tzinfo=timezone.utc), 5.5)

Output

'17:30'

Explanation

Noon UTC is 17:30 IST.

Constraints

Standard library only.
Output format HH:MM zero-padded.

Topics

Date & Timetimezones

Companies

AtlassianGitLabZoom

Hints

Hint 1

timezone accepts a timedelta offset.

Hint 2

astimezone converts; strftime('%H:%M') formats.

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