tzcity 0.0.3

Module to translate city names to time zone names

tzcity

A module to find the Olson database time zone names of some of the most populous cities in the world without an internet connection.

Only a few cities associated with each time zone are recognized to minimize the size of data bundled with the package.

Installation

You need Python>=3.6 to use tzcity.

It can be installed from PyPI with pip using

pip install tzcity

Usage

tzcity.tzcity(city: str) -> str

Accepts a city name and returns the time zone name associated with that city.

Raises UnknownTZCityException if unable to recognize city.

>>> tzcity.tzcity('abu dhabi')
'Asia/Dubai'

>>> tzcity.tzcity('bandar seri begawan')
'Asia/Brunei'

>>> tzcity.tzcity('myanmar')  # a country with only one time zone
'Asia/Yangon'

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tzcity.capitalize(name: str) -> str

Capitalize the city or time zone name provided as argument.

Raises UnknownTZCityException if unable to recognize name.

>>> tzcity.capitalize('andorra la vella')
'Andorra la Vella'

>>> tzcity.capitalize("new york")
'New York'

>>> tzcity.capitalize("dumont d'urville")
"Dumont d'Urville"