try: import _winreg as winreg except ImportError: import winreg from tzlocal.windows_tz import win_tz import pytz _cache_tz = None def valuestodict(key): """Convert a registry key's values to a dictionary.""" dict = {} size = winreg.QueryInfoKey(key)[1] for i in range(size): data = winreg.EnumValue(key, i) dict[data[0]] = data[1] return dict def get_localzone_name(): # Windows is special. It has unique time zone names (in several # meanings of the word) available, but unfortunately, they can be # translated to the language of the operating system, so we need to # do a backwards lookup, by going through all time zones and see which # one matches. handle = winreg.ConnectRegistry(None, winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) TZLOCALKEYNAME = r"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation" localtz = winreg.OpenKey(handle, TZLOCALKEYNAME) keyvalues = valuestodict(localtz) localtz.Close() if 'TimeZoneKeyName' in keyvalues: # Windows 7 (and Vista?) # For some reason this returns a string with loads of NUL bytes at # least on some systems. I don't know if this is a bug somewhere, I # just work around it. tzkeyname = keyvalues['TimeZoneKeyName'].split('\x00', 1)[0] else: # Windows 2000 or XP # This is the localized name: tzwin = keyvalues['StandardName'] # Open the list of timezones to look up the real name: TZKEYNAME = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones" tzkey = winreg.OpenKey(handle, TZKEYNAME) # Now, match this value to Time Zone information tzkeyname = None for i in range(winreg.QueryInfoKey(tzkey)[0]): subkey = winreg.EnumKey(tzkey, i) sub = winreg.OpenKey(tzkey, subkey) data = valuestodict(sub) sub.Close() try: if data['Std'] == tzwin: tzkeyname = subkey break except KeyError: # This timezone didn't have proper configuration. # Ignore it. pass tzkey.Close() handle.Close() if tzkeyname is None: raise LookupError('Can not find Windows timezone configuration') timezone = win_tz.get(tzkeyname) if timezone is None: # Nope, that didn't work. Try adding "Standard Time", # it seems to work a lot of times: timezone = win_tz.get(tzkeyname + " Standard Time") # Return what we have. if timezone is None: raise pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError('Can not find timezone ' + tzkeyname) return timezone def get_localzone(): """Returns the zoneinfo-based tzinfo object that matches the Windows-configured timezone.""" global _cache_tz if _cache_tz is None: _cache_tz = pytz.timezone(get_localzone_name()) return _cache_tz def reload_localzone(): """Reload the cached localzone. You need to call this if the timezone has changed.""" global _cache_tz _cache_tz = pytz.timezone(get_localzone_name())