zoneinfo

dateutil.zoneinfo.gettz(name)[source]
dateutil.zoneinfo.gettz_db_metadata()[source]

Get the zonefile metadata

See zonefile_metadata

Returns:A dictionary with the database metadata

zonefile_metadata

The zonefile metadata defines the version and exact location of the timezone database to download. It is used in the updatezinfo.py script. A json encoded file is included in the source-code, and within each tar file we produce. The json file is attached here:

{
    "metadata_version": 2.0,
    "releases_url": [
        "https://dateutil.github.io/tzdata/tzdata/",
        "ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/"
    ],
    "tzdata_file": "tzdata2016d.tar.gz",
    "tzdata_file_sha512": "f1beb1793c4c7d18f2dadaf4a928b1476f66b400bda0c87b06155c0dd1c4b4a26bb2f37dc17a3676a2bbe9c1e71a5d8b27a171c797a86464b0bc0d13abfb2f99",
    "tzversion": "2016d",
    "zonegroups": [
        "africa",
        "antarctica",
        "asia",
        "australasia",
        "europe",
        "northamerica",
        "southamerica",
        "pacificnew",
        "etcetera",
        "systemv",
        "factory",
        "backzone",
        "backward"
    ]
}