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tzlocal
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This Python module returns a `tzinfo` object with the local timezone information under Unix and Win-32.
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It requires `pytz`, and returns `pytz` `tzinfo` objects.
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This module attempts to fix a glaring hole in `pytz`, that there is no way to
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get the local timezone information, unless you know the zoneinfo name, and
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under several Linux distros that's hard or impossible to figure out.
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Also, with Windows different timezone system using pytz isn't of much use
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unless you separately configure the zoneinfo timezone name.
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With `tzlocal` you only need to call `get_localzone()` and you will get a
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`tzinfo` object with the local time zone info. On some Unices you will still
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not get to know what the timezone name is, but you don't need that when you
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have the tzinfo file. However, if the timezone name is readily available it
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will be used.
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Supported systems
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These are the systems that are in theory supported:
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* Windows 2000 and later
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* Any unix-like system with a /etc/localtime or /usr/local/etc/localtime
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If you have one of the above systems and it does not work, it's a bug.
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Please report it.
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Usage
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-----
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Load the local timezone:
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>>> from tzlocal import get_localzone
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>>> tz = get_localzone()
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>>> tz
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<DstTzInfo 'Europe/Warsaw' WMT+1:24:00 STD>
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Create a local datetime:
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>>> from datetime import datetime
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>>> dt = tz.localize(datetime.now())
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>>> dt
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datetime.datetime(2012, 9, 11, 14, 43, 42, 518871, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Europe/Warsaw' CEST+2:00:00 DST>)
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Lookup another timezone with `pytz`:
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>>> import pytz
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>>> eastern = pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')
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Convert the datetime:
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>>> dt.astimezone(eastern)
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datetime.datetime(2012, 9, 11, 8, 43, 42, 518871, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'US/Eastern' EDT-1 day, 20:00:00 DST>)
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Maintainer
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----------
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* Lennart Regebro, regebro@gmail.com
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Contributors
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------------
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* Marc Van Olmen
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* Benjamen Meyer
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* Manuel Ebert
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* Xiaokun Zhu
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(Sorry if I forgot someone)
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License
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-------
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* CC0 1.0 Universal http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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