On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Olive <di...@bigfoot.com> wrote: > In the datetime module, it has support for a notion of timezone but is > it possible to use one of the available timezone (I am on Linux). Linux > has a notion of timezone (in my distribution, they are stored > in /usr/share/zoneinfo). I would like to be able 1) to know the current > timezone
time.tzname gives the zone names (plural due to DST); time.timezone and time.altzone gives their UTC offsets. > and 2) to be able to use the timezone available on the system. You can use the name to look it up in pytz (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/ ). And python-dateutil (http://labix.org/python-dateutil ) can apparently parse zoneinfo files, if that's what you mean. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
