Python 2.6 and timezones

[loial]

Thanks...but being a python newbie I am struggling to understand how
to do this.

How can I use tzinfo to do the equivalent of what I do in Java, which
is  :

    TimeZone tz1 = TimeZone.getDefault();

    long localOffset = tz1.getOffset(date.getTime());

    TimeZone tz2 = TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST");

    long remoteOffset = tz2.getOffset(date.getTime());

Any help appreciated



On May 23, 11:48 am, Daniel Kluev <dan.kl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:32 PM, loial <jldunn2... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does python have an equivalent of the java Timezone object?
>
> > I need to be able to get offsets for timezones (only U.S. time zones
> > at the moment)
>
> Depends on what exactly do you want. If you need to convert timezone
> name into current offset, you should use [1] or [2].
> If you just need to handle known offsets for datetime objects, there
> is tzinfo class in datetime module, [3].
>
> [1]http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PosixTimeZone/0.9.4
> [2]http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2011g
> [3]http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#tzinfo-objects
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Daniel Kluev