dateutil.tz.tz.tzstr

``tzstr`` objects are time zone objects specified by a time-zone string as it would be passed to a ``TZ`` variable on POSIX-style systems (see the `GNU C Library: TZ Variable`_ for more details). There is one notable exception, which is that POSIX-style time zones use an inverted offset format, so normally ``GMT+3`` would be parsed as an offset 3 hours *behind* GMT. The ``tzstr`` time zone object will parse this as an offset 3 hours *ahead* of GMT. If you would like to maintain the POSIX behavior, pass a ``True`` value to ``posix_offset``. The :class:`tzrange` object provides the same functionality, but is specified using :class:`relativedelta.relativedelta` objects. rather than strings. :param s: A time zone string in ``TZ`` variable format. This can be a :class:`bytes` (2.x: :class:`str`), :class:`str` (2.x: :class:`unicode`) or a stream emitting unicode characters (e.g. :class:`StringIO`). :param posix_offset: Optional. If set to ``True``, interpret strings such as ``GMT+3`` or ``UTC+3`` as being 3 hours *behind* UTC rather than ahead, per the POSIX standard. .. caution:: Prior to version 2.7.0, this function also supported time zones in the format: * ``EST5EDT,4,0,6,7200,10,0,26,7200,3600`` * ``EST5EDT,4,1,0,7200,10,-1,0,7200,3600`` This format is non-standard and has been deprecated; this function will raise a :class:`DeprecatedTZFormatWarning` until support is removed in a future version. .. _`GNU C Library: TZ Variable`: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html