python - Get timezone abbreviation from UTC offset

Question

I have the UTC offset in my DB for the users:

+5:30 

How can I get the timezone abbreviation from this UTC offset using Python?

Such as

+5:30 => IST

Is it even possible to do this using Python?

Answer 1

This is not possible.

• There are many time zones that share the same offset. See this Wikipedia article for details.

• There is no uniform standard for time zone abbreviations. There are some listed here and here, and you can see that there are duplicates in both directions.

  For example:

  • CST might be -5:00, -6:00, +8:00, +9:30 or +10:30.
  • -10:00 could be HST, HAST, TAHT, or CKT

Read also the section "Time Zone != Offset" of the timezone tag wiki here on StackOverflow.