How can I get UTC offset from time zone name in python?
For example: I have Asia/Jerusalem
and I want to get +0200
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Answer
Because of DST (Daylight Saving Time), the result depends on the time of the year:
import datetime, pytz datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('Asia/Jerusalem')).strftime('%z') # returns '+0300' (because 'now' they have DST) pytz.timezone('Asia/Jerusalem').localize(datetime.datetime(2011,1,1)).strftime('%z') # returns '+0200' (because in January they didn't have DST)