On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:32 PM, loial <jldunn2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does python have an equivalent of the java Timezone object? > > I need to be able to get offsets for timezones (only U.S. time zones > at the moment)
Depends on what exactly do you want. If you need to convert timezone name into current offset, you should use [1] or [2]. If you just need to handle known offsets for datetime objects, there is tzinfo class in datetime module, [3]. [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PosixTimeZone/0.9.4 [2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2011g [3] http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#tzinfo-objects -- With best regards, Daniel Kluev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
