+# Retrieved from http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html on 2013-05-24
+from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta, datetime
+
+ZERO = timedelta(0)
+HOUR = timedelta(hours=1)
+
+# A UTC class.
+
+class UTC(tzinfo):
+ """UTC"""
+
+ def utcoffset(self, dt):
+ return ZERO
+
+ def tzname(self, dt):
+ return "UTC"
+
+ def dst(self, dt):
+ return ZERO
+
+utc = UTC()
+
+# A class building tzinfo objects for fixed-offset time zones.
+# Note that FixedOffset(0, "UTC") is a different way to build a
+# UTC tzinfo object.
+
+class FixedOffset(tzinfo):
+ """Fixed offset in minutes east from UTC."""
+
+ def __init__(self, offset, name):
+ self.__offset = timedelta(minutes = offset)
+ self.__name = name
+
+ def utcoffset(self, dt):
+ return self.__offset
+
+ def tzname(self, dt):
+ return self.__name
+
+ def dst(self, dt):
+ return ZERO
+
+# A class capturing the platform's idea of local time.
+
+import time as _time
+
+STDOFFSET = timedelta(seconds = -_time.timezone)
+if _time.daylight:
+ DSTOFFSET = timedelta(seconds = -_time.altzone)
+else:
+ DSTOFFSET = STDOFFSET
+
+DSTDIFF = DSTOFFSET - STDOFFSET
+
+class LocalTimezone(tzinfo):
+
+ def utcoffset(self, dt):
+ if self._isdst(dt):
+ return DSTOFFSET
+ else:
+ return STDOFFSET
+
+ def dst(self, dt):
+ if self._isdst(dt):
+ return DSTDIFF
+ else:
+ return ZERO
+
+ def tzname(self, dt):
+ return _time.tzname[self._isdst(dt)]
+
+ def _isdst(self, dt):
+ tt = (dt.year, dt.month, dt.day,
+ dt.hour, dt.minute, dt.second,
+ dt.weekday(), 0, 0)
+ stamp = _time.mktime(tt)
+ tt = _time.localtime(stamp)
+ return tt.tm_isdst > 0
+
+Local = LocalTimezone()
+