src/cm/utils/timezone.py
author gibus
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:05:11 +0200
changeset 458 ba7e05582435
parent 275 5339e9e0e186
permissions -rw-r--r--
When extracting body of a document in HTML source format (i.e. without pandoc conversion before display), use BeautifilSoup, which is more tolerant, instead of xml.dom.minidom, which crashes too often.

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