[Python Wpg] Python test for DST correctness

[Sydney Weidman]

Hi all!

I thought I'd quickly try to whip something up in python that would test
to see if the correct DST rules are in place, but I couldn't seem to get
it to work properly. This test fails on platforms that have the correct
timezone files in place and on those that don't. Does anyone have a
suggestion for how to do this? I have included my tiny unittest that I
thought would do it, but I've obviously made some incorrect assumption
about how the Python datetime library works. I realize I could just do
os.system('date -d "15 March") and check the output for CDT instead of
CST, but I thought there would be a more Pythonic way to do it.

Regards,
Syd
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