Question

Need a ListBox/Dropdown with pytz common_timezones name each difference for UTC.

<select style="cursor:pointer; min-width: 300px;" name="timezone">
    {% for tz in timezones %}
        <option value="{{ tz }}"{% if tz == TIME_ZONE %} selected="selected"{% endif %}>{{ tz }}</option>
    {% endfor %}
</select>

I’m feeding that list with:
‘timezones’: pytz.common_timezones, ‘TIME_ZONE’: request.session[‘django_timezone’]
on render to response…

but I’m getting only a list of names.. I needed a list of names the difference of each time zone for UTC..

example:

America/XYZ UTC-xxxx/UTC-xxxx+1

Europe/XPTO UTC+xxxx

Edited: I would be happy getting the present known offsets for each timezone like showed here http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/) in this moment (this instant) and if possible with one/two last years spawn (the possibilities like: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/).

Thanks in advance for any help given!

Answer 1

I came to this one:

def get_timezones_with_gmt_diff(timezone_string_list = None):
    """
    Converts a datetime object into string.
    """
    if timezone_string_list:
        timezone_list = timezone_string_list
    else:
        timezone_list = pytz.common_timezones

    datetime1 = datetime.strptime("10-07-%s 00:00:00" % datetime.utcnow().year, "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")
    datetime2 = datetime.strptime("10-12-%s 00:00:00" % datetime.utcnow().year, "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")

    result_dict = {}
    for time_zone in timezone_list:
        result_dict[time_zone] = [Date.timedelta_in_seconds(pytz.timezone(time_zone).localize(datetime1).tzinfo._utcoffset)/3600,
                                  Date.timedelta_in_seconds(pytz.timezone(time_zone).localize(datetime2).tzinfo._utcoffset)/3600,
                                  time_zone.replace("/", " - ").replace("_", " "),
                                  Date.timedelta_in_seconds(pytz.timezone(time_zone).localize(datetime1).tzinfo._utcoffset)/3600 !=
                                  Date.timedelta_in_seconds(pytz.timezone(time_zone).localize(datetime2).tzinfo._utcoffset)/3600]

    sorted_result_dict = OrderedDict(sorted(result_dict.items(), key=lambda t: t[1][2]))
    return sorted_result_dict

def get_timezones_for_listbox(time_zones_dict):
    list = []
    for time_zone_tuple in time_zones_dict:
        # Has different DST/Summer times:
        if time_zones_dict[time_zone_tuple][3]:
            new_item = "%s      UCT %s/%s" % (str(time_zones_dict[time_zone_tuple][2]), str(time_zones_dict[time_zone_tuple][0]), str(time_zones_dict[time_zone_tuple][1]))
        # Does not change datetime:
        else:
            new_item = "%s      UCT %s" % (str(time_zones_dict[time_zone_tuple][2]), str(time_zones_dict[time_zone_tuple][0]))
        list.append(new_item)
    return list

def timedelta_in_seconds(duration):
    days, seconds = duration.days, duration.seconds
    return days * 24 * 60 * 60 + seconds

of course I will further manipulate these two methods in order to accomplish the desired output from my input context.