Most UNIX platforms extend struct tm to include tm_gmtoff and tm_zone fields that contain the current UTC offset in seconds and the zone abbreviation.

Python has been making these fields available as attributes of time.struct_time [1] since version 3.3, but only on platforms that support them in the C library.

>>> import time

>>> t = time.localtime()

>>> t.tm_gmtoff

-14400

>>> t.tm_zone

'EDT'

I propose that we make these attributes available on all platforms by computing their values when they are not available in struct tm.

The tm_gmtoff value is easy to compute by comparing localtime() to gmtime():

>>> u = time.gmtime(time.mktime(t))

>>> from calendar import timegm

>>> timegm(t) - timegm(u)

-14400

and tm_zone can be computed by calling strftime() with a '%Z' directive.

>>> time.strftime('%Z', t)

'EDT'

What does the group think?

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.struct_time

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