Get time zone information of the system in Python?

Question

I want to get the default timezone (PST) of my system from Python. What\'s the best way to do that? I\'d like to avoid forking another process.

Answer 1

Getting offset from UTC as timedelta:

from datetime import datetime, timezone

now = datetime.now()
now.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc) - now.astimezone(timezone.utc)

Or like this (more obscure but also works):

datetime.now(timezone.utc).astimezone().tzinfo.utcoffset(None)

Both solutions give the same result. For example: datetime.timedelta(seconds=7200)