Nah, it's got to be something more than that. A bunch of them are screwed up. It's showing America/Saskatchewan as UTC-06:59.
I think there's something wrong with my code. I've put it up at a pastebin so that it's easier to read. http://pastebin.ca/1061776 On Jul 2, 11:22 am, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
