Python: Figure out local timezone

Question

I want to compare UTC timestamps from a log file with local timestamps. When creating the local datetime object, I use something like:

>>> local_time=datetime.datetime(2010, 4, 27, 12, 0, 0, 0,                                   tzinfo=pytz.timezone('Israel')) 

I want to find an automatic tool that would replace thetzinfo=pytz.timezone('Israel') with the current local time zone.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In Python 3.x, local timezone can be figured out like this:

import datetime LOCAL_TIMEZONE = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).astimezone().tzinfo 

It's a tricky use of datetime's code .

For python < 3.6, you'll need

import datetime LOCAL_TIMEZONE = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))).astimezone().tzinfo 

Answer 2

Try dateutil, which has a tzlocal type that does what you need.