[Chicago] Working with timezones

[Bill Seitz]

Here's a python example
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35085289/getting-timezone-name-from-utc-offset

On Nov 18, 2016 3:02 PM, "Bill Seitz" <fluxent at gmail.com> wrote:

> You want libraries that build on the Olson/tz/IANA system. That will lead
> you down the happy path.
>
> On Nov 18, 2016 2:43 PM, "Suchandra Thapa" <suchandra+chipy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If you need to implement this yourself, just be sure to consider that
>> this is dependent on the date as well.  I.e. depending on when daylight
>> savings time goes into effect, your timezone names will change.  To be
>> really accurate, you'll need the year as well.
>>
>> Suchandra
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:33 PM Chris Foresman <foresmac at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ugh, dealing with time/timezones is the worst, AMIRITE? Here’s what I
>>> need to do:
>>>
>>> Calculate an offset from UTC, and use the offset to get a list of
>>> corresponding timezone names, i.e., I’ve detmerined that I need all the
>>> timezones associated with offset -06:00; which includes “America/Chicago”,
>>> “CT”, etc. I looked at pytz, but it looks like it only goes the other
>>> direction, i.e. pytz.timezone(‘America/Chicago’) will give me a tzinfo
>>> instance with UTC offset -06:00.
>>>
>>> Outside of building my own reverse database, does anyone have ideas how
>>> to make this work?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris Foresman
>>> foresmac at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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