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How to get the pytz time zone from a common abbreviation (PST, EST, etc.)?

This is a similar question, How to get a common name for pytz timezone, for example. EST / EDT for America / New_York , except that I want to get the time zone from "PST" from pytz. e.g. tz = timezone("PST") Is this possible with pytz?

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In the end, I just created a dictionary that displays abbreviations for time zone names. For example, 'PST' : 'America/Los_Angeles' is a record (like PDT to reduce daylight saving time).

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Have you tried using strptime with% Z format code? I never did this myself, but at least in theory you would have to enter the tz code there, and it should be translated into tzinfo (built into the datetime / time object)

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