tz.py

# encoding: utf-8
"""
Timezone utilities

Just UTC-awareness right now
"""

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#  Copyright (C) 2013 The IPython Development Team
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#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
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# Imports
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from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta, datetime

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# Code
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# constant for zero offset
ZERO = timedelta(0)

class tzUTC(tzinfo):
    """tzinfo object for UTC (zero offset)"""

    def utcoffset(self, d):
        return ZERO

    def dst(self, d):
        return ZERO

UTC = tzUTC()

def utc_aware(unaware):
    """decorator for adding UTC tzinfo to datetime's utcfoo methods"""
    def utc_method(*args, **kwargs):
        dt = unaware(*args, **kwargs)
        return dt.replace(tzinfo=UTC)
    return utc_method

utcfromtimestamp = utc_aware(datetime.utcfromtimestamp)
utcnow = utc_aware(datetime.utcnow)