IANA timezone database parser. Intended for and will produce a native javascript data structure.
The javascript data structure is destined for use within an interpreter without disk or network access. All script content must be contained within the initial file used at execution time.
This can also be used as a module to return python dicts to process however you'd like.
References: http://www.iana.org/time-zones
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Copyright (c) 2013 Carlos (nzlosh@yahoo.com)
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- Requirements
- Python 2.7 or Python 3
- IANA tz data archive
1 Download the IANA timezone data archive file. > wget 'http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2018e.tar.lz' > new ones are released every few months
2 Extract the archive to your desired directory. > mkdir /tmp/tzdb-2018e
> tar xzvf tzdb-2018e.tar.gz /tmp/tzdb-2018e
For js data structures, execute tz2js.py with tzdata's directory as an argument:
> python tz2js.py /tmp/tzdb-2018e
Or in your python code:
import tz2js
...
tz2js.tzpath = '/tmp/tzdb-2018e'
data = tz2js.parseZoneFile()
...
The group of people who maintain the extremely detailed and complex timezone database. Great work people!