Get system local timezone in python

Question

Seems strange, but I cannot find an easy way to find the local timezone using Pandas/pytz in Python.

I can do:

>>> pd.Timestamp('now', tz='utc').isoformat()
Out[47]: '2016-01-28T09:36:35.604000+00:00'
>>> pd.Timestamp('now').isoformat()
Out[48]: '2016-01-28T10:36:41.830000'
>>> pd.Timestamp('now').tz_localize('utc') - pd.Timestamp('now', tz='utc')
Out[49]: Timedelta('0 days 01:00:00')

Which will give me the timezone, but this is probably not the best way to do it... Is there a command in pytz or pandas to get the system time zone? (preferably in python 2.7 )

Answer 1

I don't think this is possible using pytz or pandas, but you can always install python-dateutil or tzlocal:

from dateutil.tz import tzlocal
datetime.now(tzlocal())

or

from tzlocal import get_localzone
local_tz = get_localzone()

Answer 2

time.timezone should work.

The offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative in most of Western Europe, positive in the US, zero in the UK).

Dividing by 3600 will give you the offset in hours:

import time

print(time.timezone / 3600.0)

This does not require any additional Python libraries.