Reverse to YUI 3.0.0 since with YUI.3.10.3, comment content including words 'paragraph' or 'section' do not show up on Firefox, this is weird and has to be investigated.
from datetime import timedelta
from pytz import timezone, utc, UnknownTimeZoneError
from django.conf import settings
local_tz = timezone(settings.TIME_ZONE)
def request_tz_convert(date, request):
return tz_convert(date, request.session.get('tz',None))
def tz_convert(date, tz):
"""
Convert date to time zone
tz can be;
- '-2' (relative to utc)
- 'Paris/Europe' real timezone like (cf pytz)
"""
if tz:
system_local_date = local_tz.localize(date)
try:
# simple utc delta?
utc_offset = int(tz)
utc_time = system_local_date.astimezone(utc)
res = utc.normalize(utc_time + timedelta(hours=utc_offset))
return res
except:
try:
# real timezone
timez = timezone(tz)
local_date = system_local_date.astimezone(timez)
return local_date
except UnknownTimeZoneError:
# fall back to date
return date
else:
return date