pytz alternative - using OS timezone as source?

Question

Are there any simpler pytz alternative using OS timezone/dst as as source?

a ctypes wrapper or something doesn't require compiling would be welcome.

Edit: the beast

Answer 1

tzlocal module finds pytz timezone that corresponds to your OS local timezone on *nix and Win32:

from datetime import datetime
from tzlocal import get_localzone # $ pip install tzlocal

print(datetime.now(get_localzone()))
# -> 2015-01-27 07:20:52.163408+01:00

Your distribution may patch pytz module to use OS tz database instead of embed one (e.g., Ubuntu does it).