win32timezone.TimeZoneInfo.local

local(class_)

Returns the local time zone as defined by the operating system in the registry.

Parameters

class_ :

class_

Comments

Now one can compare the results of the two offset aware values

>>> (now_UTC - now_local) < datetime.timedelta(seconds = 5)

True

>>> localTZ = TimeZoneInfo.local()

>>> now_local = datetime.datetime.now(localTZ)

>>> now_UTC = datetime.datetime.utcnow()

>>> (now_UTC - now_local) < datetime.timedelta(seconds = 5)

Traceback (most recent call last):

...

TypeError: can't subtract offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes


>>> now_UTC = now_UTC.replace(tzinfo = TimeZoneInfo('GMT Standard Time', True))