Glyph on Nostr: Is it possible to get a zoneinfo.ZoneInfo key (i.e.: IANA tzdb identifier) for the ...
Is it possible to get a zoneinfo.ZoneInfo key (i.e.: IANA tzdb identifier) for the current system timezone, in Python? `datetime.now(timezone.utc).astimezone().` gives a potentially ambiguous 'tzname' and 'utcoffset' which make it difficult to communicate long-term time intervals to other systems
#python #datetime #timezones
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