tracktable.core.simple_timezone module

Module contents

simple_timezone - Timezone struct based on UTC offset

class tracktable.core.simple_timezone.SimpleTimeZone(hours=0, minutes=0, name='UTC')

Bases: datetime.tzinfo

Trivial time zone struct for use with datetime.

We use this when we don’t need the full power of the pytz package.

offset

Offset from UTC

Type

datetime.timedelta

name

Human-readable name for timezone

Type

str

dst(dt)

Return daylight savings time offset

Since we don’t support daylight savings time in SimpleTimeZone this is always zero.

Parameters

dt (datetime.datetime) – Timestamp to check for DST

Returns

Zero time offset

localize(timestamp)

Convert a datetime into an ‘aware’ datetime object by replacing its time zone

Parameters

timestamp (datetime.datetime) – Timestamp object to make aware

Returns

New datetime.datetime object with this timezone attached

utcoffset(dt)

Return offset from UTC

This method is required by the Python datetime library in order to create ‘aware’ datetime objects.

Parameters

dt (datetime.timedelta) – Not used