Python: Figure out local timezone

Question

I want to compare UTC timestamps from a log file with local timestamps. When creating the local datetime object, I use something like:

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Answer 1

You may be happy with pendulum

>>> pendulum.datetime(2015, 2, 5, tz='local').timezone.name
'Israel'

Pendulum has a well designed API for manipulating dates. Everything is TZ-aware.