On 22 December 2012 09:37, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
is there a piece of code in pywiki that determines easily if the current time zone is summer or winter time? (Last Sunday of March, 3 o'clock -- last Sunday of October, 2 o'clock)
In the EU, yes. In the rest of the world, not so much (the US uses different dates and the southern hemisphere obviously has DST in the /other/ part of the year).
Depending on your actual question (why would you want to know when it's summer time or not? You probably want to convert times from the current timezone to UTC, or something ilike that)), you can try one of the following:
pytz.timezone('Europe/Amsterdam').utcoffset(datetime.datetime.now())
or, if you're interested in the timezone offset on the current machine:
time.timezone
(which is 3600 or 7200 for Europe/Amsterdam)
Merlijn