On 17 February 2010 22:37, David Perlman <dperlman at wisc.edu> wrote: > As far as I can tell, this should always work. So wouldn't it be nice if > there were a less convoluted way to get this?? There is pytz [1] which should provide a simpler way to manage timezone info in python. Greets Sander [1] http://pytz.sourceforge.net/