bson_timezone

A package that provides timezone support for MongoDB bson -> https://api.mongodb.com/python/current/api/bson/index.html

MongoDB bson is great - but it doens't allow for timezone support. This package rectifies that.

This package provides a new dumps and loads method that overrides the ~bson.json_util.dumps and ~bson.json_util.load functions in a few key places to support timezones - everything else works in the same way as in the core package.

Installation

pip install bson_timezone

Usage

bson_timezone handle timezone aware and timezone naive datetimes.
bson_timezone retains all existing functionality of ~bson.json_util.dumps - meaning you can provide json_options to configure the output as required.

Dumping a timezone aware datetime

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from bson_timezone import bson_tz_dumps
>>> import pytz

>>> timezone = pytz.timezone("America/New_York")
>>> dt = datetime(2020,6,20,12,30,45).astimezone(timezone)

>>> bson_tz_dumps(dt)
'{"$date": 1592652645000, "$zone": "America/New_York", "$offset": {"total_seconds": -14400.0}}'

Loading a timezone aware datetime

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from bson_timezone import bson_tz_loads

>>> dumped_data = '{"$date": 1592652645000, "$zone": "America/New_York", "$offset": {"total_seconds": -14400.0}}'
>>> bson_tz_loads(dumped_data)
datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 20, 7, 30, 45, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'America/New_York' EDT-1 day, 20:00:00 DST>)

Dumping a timezone naive datetime

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from bson_timezone import bson_tz_dumps

>>> dt = datetime(2020,6,20,12,30,45)

>>> bson_tz_dumps(dt)
'{"$date": 1592656245000, "$zone": null, "$offset": null}'

Loading a timezone naive datetime

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from bson_timezone import bson_tz_loads

>>> dumped_data = '{"$date": 1592656245000, "$zone": null, "$offset": null}'
>>> bson_tz_loads(dumped_data)
datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 20, 7, 30, 45)

Running the tests

python setup.py test