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

For Python 3.6+ this can be easily achieved by following code:

import datetime
local_timezone = datetime.datetime.utcnow().astimezone().tzinfo

print(local_timezone)

But with Python < 3.6 calling astimezone() on naive datetime doesn't work. So we've to do it in a slightly different way.

So for Python 3.x,

import datetime
local_timezone = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).astimezone().tzinfo

print(local_timezone)

Sample Output:
On Netherlands Server(Python 3.6.9): CEST
On Bangladesh Server(Python 3.8.2): +06

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