Getting the local time zone in Python is rather difficult.
As of 2008, two articles indicate that the current mechanisms totally suck: "Python and time zones part 2: The beast returns!": http://regebro.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/python-and-time-zones-part-2-the-beast-returns/ "Time zones in Python – welcome to hell": http://blog.mfabrik.com/2008/06/30/relativity-of-time-shortcomings-in-python-datetime-and-workaround/ (Despite that article, there is a straightforward way to get that information in Windows: "GetDynamicTimeZoneInformation".) Did something useful ever get done about that? This ought to be in the "time" module for each platform. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list