How To Pick A Timezone Based On Utc Offset?

i've got a silly problem. I'm parsing Facebook user data, and I get the timezone as a number: timezone: The user's timezone offset from UTC For me ('America/Argentina/Buenos_Aire

Solution 1:

There's not a 1:1 correspondence, so there's no way to do it without making some assumptions that are bound to be invalid.

You can create your own tzinfo class that encodes the offset directly without trying to tie it back to a zone.

Solution 2:

As @Mark Ransom said, multiple pytz.timezone may have the same UTC offset at a given date. You could print the mapping for a particular date:

#!/usr/bin/env pythonfrom collections import defaultdict
from datetime import datetime

import pytz # $ pip install pytz

dt = datetime.now(pytz.utc) # current time in UTC
zone_names = defaultdict(list)
for tz in pytz.common_timezones:
    zone_names[dt.astimezone(pytz.timezone(tz)).utcoffset()].append(tz)

for offset, zone insorted(zone_names.items()):
    print("%.1f %s" % (offset.total_seconds() / 3600, zone))
# -> -11.0 ['Pacific/Midway', 'Pacific/Niue', 'Pacific/Pago_Pago']# ...

Solution 3:

You can use tzinfo.tzname to get the zone name.