Get timezone used by datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp()

Question

Is it possible, and if yes, how, to get the time zone (i.e. the UTC offset or a datetime.timezone instance with that offset) that is used by datetime.date

Answer 1

Using time.gmtime you can extract the timezone as described in this previous answer: Get TZ information of the system in Python?.

>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>> from time import gmtime, strftime
>>> print(strftime("%z", gmtime()))
-0600

Prints -06:00 for my CST laptop in both python-2.7 and python-3.3 You can also use localtime() to get a local time struct.

>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>> from time import localtime
>>> lt = localtime()
>>> print(lt.tm_zone)
"CDT"
>>> print(lt.tm_gmtoff/(60*60))
-5.0
>>> print(lt.tm_gmtoff/(60*60) - (1 if lt.tm_isdst == 1 else 0)) # Adjusted for DST
-6.0

Hope this helps