arie.ha...@gmail.com wrote: >Our project requres getting time-zone offset for the given time-zone >id at the current time.
You can speed things up a bit by using the timezone modules in isolation. You can construct a fake DateTime class, which only provides the methods ->utc_rd_as_seconds and ->utc_year. Use that class to construct an object representing the current time. Then call ->offset_for_datetime on a timezone object, passing in your fake DateTime. -zefram