On Jul 2, 12:43 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to write some code to deal with world timezones, and I'm
> getting a strange result. America/Iqaluit should not be showing up in
> UTC+00:00, but it is. Can anyone see what's wrong with this code?
>
> import time
> from datetime import datetime
> import os
> import pytz
>
> def getZoneNamesOnThisComputer():
> for i in pytz.all_timezones:
> if os.path.exists( os.path.join('/tmp/usr/share/zoneinfo/',
> i)):
> yield i
>
> def getZonesGroupedByOffset():
> '''return a dict of all the zone names , grouped by their offset
> eg:
> {'-0400': ['America/Blanc-Sablon', 'Etc/GMT+4'],
> '+0000': ['America/Iqaluit', 'Etc/GMT', 'Europe/Belfast', 'GB',
> 'GMT'],
> ...
> }
> '''
> Y,M,D,h,m,s = time.localtime()[:6]
>
> zonesGroupedByOffset = {}
>
> for name in getZoneNamesOnThisComputer():
> tz = pytz.timezone(name)
> now = datetime(Y,M,D,h,m,s, tzinfo=tz)
> # strfime returns a string like "-0800" or "+0430" or "0000"
> offsetKey = now.strftime('%z')
> if not zonesGroupedByOffset.has_key(offsetKey):
> zonesGroupedByOffset[offsetKey] = []
> zonesGroupedByOffset[offsetKey].append(name)
> return zonesGroupedByOffset
>
> z = getZonesGroupedByOffset()
> print z['+0000']
>
> # Why is America/Iqaluit showing up here???
The database contains an error. Shit happens, deal with it.
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