Is a specific timezone using DST right now?

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Is a specific timezone using DST right now?

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00:00 Question
00:37 Accepted answer (Score 19)
01:04 Answer 2 (Score 2)
01:26 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1717...

Answer 1 links:
[zoneinfo module]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zonein...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 19

from pytz import timezone
from datetime import datetime

zonename = "Pacific/Wallis"
now = datetime.now(tz=timezone(zonename))
dst_timedelta = now.dst()
### dst_timedelta is offset to the winter time, 
### thus timedelta(0) for winter time and timedelta(0, 3600) for DST; 
### it returns None if timezone is not set

print "DST" if dst_timedelta else "no DST"

alternative is to use:

now.timetuple().tm_isdst

Which can have one of 3 values: 0 for no DST, 1 for DST and -1 for timezone not set.

ANSWER 2

Score 3

Python 3.9 has added the zoneinfo module which replaces pytz. Here is a new updated version for modern Python versions.

from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
from datetime import datetime

bool(datetime.now(tz=ZoneInfo("America/Chicago")).dst())