import pytz import email.utils import datetime import random from django.conf import settings from django.utils import timezone def local_timezone_to_utc(d): """Takes a naive datetime in the local timezone and returns a naive datetime with the corresponding UTC time.""" local_timezone = pytz.timezone(settings.TIME_ZONE) d = local_timezone.localize(d).astimezone(pytz.utc) return d.replace(tzinfo=None) def utc_to_local_timezone(d): """Takes a naive datetime UTC and returns a naive datetime in the local time zone.""" local_timezone = pytz.timezone(settings.TIME_ZONE) d = local_timezone.normalize(d.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc).astimezone(local_timezone)) return d.replace(tzinfo=None) def email_time_to_local_timezone(date_string): """Takes a time string from an email and returns a naive datetime in the local time zone.""" t = email.utils.parsedate_tz(date_string) d = datetime.datetime(*t[:6]) if t[7] != None: d += datetime.timedelta(seconds=t[9]) return utc_to_local_timezone(d) def date2datetime(date, tz=pytz.utc): return datetime.datetime(*(date.timetuple()[:6]), tzinfo=tz) def timezone_not_near_midnight(): """Get the name of a random timezone where it's not close to midnight Avoids midnight +/- 1 hour. Raises RuntimeError if it is unable to find a time zone satisfying this constraint. """ timezone_options = pytz.common_timezones tzname = random.choice(timezone_options) right_now = timezone.now().astimezone(pytz.timezone(tzname)) # Avoid the remote possibility of an infinite loop (might come up # if there is a problem with the time zone library) tries_left = 20 while right_now.hour < 1 or right_now.hour >= 23: tzname = random.choice(timezone_options) right_now = right_now.astimezone(pytz.timezone(tzname)) tries_left -= 1 if tries_left <= 0: raise RuntimeError('Unable to find a time zone not near midnight') return tzname