Most UNIX platforms extend struct tm to include tm_gmtoff and tm_zone
fields that contain the current UTC offset in seconds and the zone
abbreviation.
Python has been making these fields available as attributes of
time.struct_time [1] since version 3.3, but only on platforms that support
them in the C library.
>>> import time
>>> t = time.localtime()
>>> t.tm_gmtoff
-14400
>>> t.tm_zone
'EDT'
I propose that we make these attributes available on all platforms by
computing their values when they are not available in struct tm.
The tm_gmtoff value is easy to compute by comparing localtime() to gmtime():
>>> u = time.gmtime(time.mktime(t))
>>> from calendar import timegm
>>> timegm(t) - timegm(u)
-14400
and tm_zone can be computed by calling strftime() with a '%Z' directive.
>>> time.strftime('%Z', t)
'EDT'
What does the group think?
[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.struct_time
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