Get Timezone from City in Python/Django

Question

Using pytz, I am able to get a list of timezones like so:

>>> from pytz import country_timezones
>>> print(\' \'.join(country_         


        

Answer 1

there have been a lot of possible solutions proposed here and they're all a bit tedious to set up.

To make things quicker for the next person with this problem, I took the one from Will Charlton and made a quick python library out of it: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whenareyou

from whenareyou import whenareyou
tz = whenareyou('Hamburg')
tz.localize(datetime(2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, 0))

Gets you datetime.datetime(2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, tzinfo=) .

This gets you a pytz object (tz in the example) so you can use it pythonicly.

• It uses the google API
• Leaves daylight savings calculation to pytz, only one call per city, rest happens offline
• LRU caches the requests so you shouldn't hit the API limit easily
• Should also work with any address or anything google maps understands