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.

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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():

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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.

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

What does the group think? [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.struct_time