Parsing timezone in format of "-xx:00"

Question

I have a IP geolocation service that returns the users estimated timezone in the format of -08:00

At first I tried to dump this number into Pytz, but that doesn't work. (I realize now that was a stupid idea.)

So how might I parse this number into a tzinfo object?

It's not a full time string, just the timezone in the above format. — Theron Luhn, Jul 04 '12 at 04:46
related: [Get Timezone from City in Python/Django](http://stackoverflow.com/q/16505501/4279) — jfs, Oct 03 '14 at 14:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '12 at 14:03

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An offset is not enough to define a timezone, e.g., it ignores DST and other changes to the time in the area.

To get a limited tzinfo object you could use pytz.FixedOffset(-8*60).

answered Jul 04 '12 at 14:03

jfs

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