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1 .. -*- mode: rst; encoding: utf-8 -*-
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3 ===============
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4 Date Formatting
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5 ===============
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8 .. contents:: Contents
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13 When working with date and time information in Python, you commonly use the
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14 classes ``date``, ``datetime`` and/or ``time`` from the `datetime`_ package.
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15 Babel provides functions for locale-specific formatting of those objects in its
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16 ``dates`` module:
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18 .. _`datetime`: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-datetime.html
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20 .. code-block:: pycon
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22 >>> from datetime import date, datetime, time
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23 >>> from babel.dates import format_date, format_datetime, format_time
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25 >>> d = date(2007, 4, 1)
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26 >>> format_date(d, locale='en')
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27 u'Apr 1, 2007'
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28 >>> format_date(d, locale='de_DE')
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29 u'01.04.2007'
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31 As this example demonstrates, Babel will automatically choose a date format
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32 that is appropriate for the requested locale.
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34 The ``format_*()`` functions also accept an optional ``format`` argument, which
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35 allows you to choose between one of four format variations:
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37 * ``short``,
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38 * ``medium`` (the default),
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39 * ``long``, and
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40 * ``full``.
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42 For example:
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44 .. code-block:: pycon
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46 >>> format_date(d, format='short', locale='en')
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47 u'4/1/07'
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48 >>> format_date(d, format='long', locale='en')
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49 u'April 1, 2007'
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50 >>> format_date(d, format='full', locale='en')
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51 u'Sunday, April 1, 2007'
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54 Pattern Syntax
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55 ==============
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57 While Babel makes it simple to use the appropriate date/time format for a given
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58 locale, you can also force it to use custom patterns. Note that Babel uses
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59 different patterns for specifying number and date formats compared to the
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60 Python equivalents (such as ``time.strftime()``), which have mostly been
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61 inherited from C and POSIX. The patterns used in Babel are based on the
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62 `Locale Data Markup Language specification`_ (LDML), which defines them as
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63 follows:
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65 A date/time pattern is a string of characters, where specific strings of
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66 characters are replaced with date and time data from a calendar when formatting
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67 or used to generate data for a calendar when parsing. […]
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69 Characters may be used multiple times. For example, if ``y`` is used for the
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70 year, ``yy`` might produce "99", whereas ``yyyy`` produces "1999". For most
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71 numerical fields, the number of characters specifies the field width. For
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72 example, if ``h`` is the hour, ``h`` might produce "5", but ``hh`` produces
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73 "05". For some characters, the count specifies whether an abbreviated or full
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74 form should be used […]
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76 Two single quotes represent a literal single quote, either inside or outside
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77 single quotes. Text within single quotes is not interpreted in any way (except
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78 for two adjacent single quotes).
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80 For example:
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82 .. code-block:: pycon
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84 >>> d = date(2007, 4, 1)
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85 >>> format_date(d, "EEE, MMM d, ''yy", locale='en')
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86 u"Sun, Apr 1, '07"
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87 >>> format_date(d, "EEEE, d.M.yyyy", locale='de')
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88 u'Sonntag, 1.4.2007'
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90 >>> t = time(15, 30)
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91 >>> format_time(t, "hh 'o''clock' a", locale='en')
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92 u"03 o'clock PM"
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93 >>> format_time(t, 'H:mm a', locale='de')
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94 u'15:30 nachm.'
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96 >>> dt = datetime(2007, 4, 1, 15, 30)
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97 >>> format_datetime(dt, "yyyyy.MMMM.dd GGG hh:mm a", locale='en')
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98 u'02007.April.01 AD 03:30 PM'
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100 The syntax for custom datetime format patterns is described in detail in the
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101 the `Locale Data Markup Language specification`_. The following table is just a
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102 relatively brief overview.
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104 .. _`Locale Data Markup Language specification`: http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns
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106 Date Fields
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107 -----------
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109 +----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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110 | Field | Symbol | Description |
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112 | Era | ``G`` | Replaced with the era string for the current date. One |
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113 | | | to three letters for the abbreviated form, four |
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114 | | | lettersfor the long form, five for the narrow form |
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116 | Year | ``y`` | Replaced by the year. Normally the length specifies |
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117 | | | the padding, but for two letters it also specifies the |
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118 | | | maximum length. |
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120 | | ``Y`` | Same as ``y`` but uses the ISO year-week calendar. |
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122 | | ``u`` | ?? |
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124 | Quarter | ``Q`` | Use one or two for the numerical quarter, three for |
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125 | | | the abbreviation, or four for the full name. |
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127 | | ``q`` | Use one or two for the numerical quarter, three for |
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128 | | | the abbreviation, or four for the full name. |
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130 | Month | ``M`` | Use one or two for the numerical month, three for the |
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131 | | | abbreviation, or four for the full name, or five for |
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132 | | | the narrow name. |
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134 | | ``L`` | Use one or two for the numerical month, three for the |
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135 | | | abbreviation, or four for the full name, or 5 for the |
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136 | | | narrow name. |
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138 | Week | ``w`` | Week of year. |
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140 | | ``W`` | Week of month. |
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142 | Day | ``d`` | Day of month. |
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143 | +--------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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144 | | ``D`` | Day of year. |
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146 | | ``F`` | Day of week in month. |
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148 | | ``g`` | ?? |
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150 | Week day | ``E`` | Day of week. Use one through three letters for the |
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151 | | | short day, or four for the full name, or five for the |
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152 | | | narrow name. |
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154 | | ``e`` | Local day of week. Same as E except adds a numeric |
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155 | | | value that will depend on the local starting day of |
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158 | | ``c`` | ?? |
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161 Time Fields
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162 -----------
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165 | Field | Symbol | Description |
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166 +==========+========+========================================================+
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167 | Period | ``a`` | AM or PM |
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169 | Hour | ``h`` | Hour [1-12]. |
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171 | | ``H`` | Hour [0-23]. |
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173 | | ``K`` | Hour [0-11]. |
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175 | | ``k`` | Hour [1-24]. |
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177 | Minute | ``m`` | Use one or two for zero places padding. |
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179 | Second | ``s`` | Use one or two for zero places padding. |
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180 | +--------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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181 | | ``S`` | Fractional second, rounds to the count of letters. |
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182 | +--------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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183 | | ``A`` | Milliseconds in day. |
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184 +----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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185 | Timezone | ``z`` | Use one to three letters for the short timezone or |
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186 | | | four for the full name. |
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187 | +--------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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188 | | ``Z`` | Use one to three letters for RFC 822, four letters for |
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189 | | | GMT format. |
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190 | +--------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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191 | | ``v`` | Use one letter for short wall (generic) time, four for |
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192 | | | long wall time. |
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194 | | ``V`` | Same as ``z``, except that timezone abbreviations |
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195 | | | should be used regardless of whether they are in |
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200 Time Delta Formatting
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201 =====================
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202
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203 In addition to providing functions for formatting localized dates and times,
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204 the ``babel.dates`` module also provides a function to format the difference
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205 between two times, called a ''time delta''. These are usually represented as
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206 ``datetime.timedelta`` objects in Python, and it's also what you get when you
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207 subtract one ``datetime`` object from an other.
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208
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209 The ``format_timedelta`` function takes a ``timedelta`` object and returns a
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210 human-readable representation. This happens at the cost of precision, as it
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211 chooses only the most significant unit (such as year, week, or hour) of the
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212 difference, and displays that:
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213
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214 .. code-block:: pycon
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215
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216 >>> from datetime import timedelta
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217 >>> from babel.dates import format_timedelta
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218 >>> delta = timedelta(days=6)
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219 >>> format_timedelta(delta, locale='en_US')
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220 u'1 week'
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221
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222 The resulting strings are based from the CLDR data, and are properly
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223 pluralized depending on the plural rules of the locale and the calculated
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224 number of units.
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225
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226 The function provides parameters for you to influence how this most significant
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227 unit is chosen: with ``threshold`` you set the value after which the
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228 presentation switches to the next larger unit, and with ``granularity`` you
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229 can limit the smallest unit to display:
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231 .. code-block:: pycon
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232
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233 >>> delta = timedelta(days=6)
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234 >>> format_timedelta(delta, threshold=1.2, locale='en_US')
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235 u'6 days'
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236 >>> format_timedelta(delta, granularity='month', locale='en_US')
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237 u'1 month'
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240 Time-zone Support
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243 Many of the verbose time formats include the time-zone, but time-zone
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244 information is not by default available for the Python ``datetime`` and
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245 ``time`` objects. The standard library includes only the abstract ``tzinfo``
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246 class, which you need appropriate implementations for to actually use in your
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247 application. Babel includes a ``tzinfo`` implementation for UTC (Universal
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248 Time).
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250 For real time-zone support, it is strongly recommended that you use the
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251 third-party package `pytz`_, which includes the definitions of practically all
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252 of the time-zones used on the world, as well as important functions for
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253 reliably converting from UTC to local time, and vice versa:
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256
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257 >>> from datetime import time
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258 >>> from pytz import timezone, utc
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259 >>> dt = datetime(2007, 04, 01, 15, 30, tzinfo=utc)
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260 >>> eastern = timezone('US/Eastern')
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261 >>> format_datetime(dt, 'H:mm Z', tzinfo=eastern, locale='en_US')
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262 u'11:30 -0400'
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264 The recommended approach to deal with different time-zones in a Python
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265 application is to always use UTC internally, and only convert from/to the users
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266 time-zone when accepting user input and displaying date/time data, respectively.
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267 You can use Babel together with ``pytz`` to apply a time-zone to any
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268 ``datetime`` or ``time`` object for display, leaving the original information
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272
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273 >>> british = timezone('Europe/London')
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274 >>> format_datetime(dt, 'H:mm zzzz', tzinfo=british, locale='en_US')
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275 u'16:30 British Summer Time'
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277 Here, the given UTC time is adjusted to the "Europe/London" time-zone, and
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278 daylight savings time is taken into account. Daylight savings time is also
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279 applied to ``format_time``, but because the actual date is unknown in that
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280 case, the current day is assumed to determine whether DST or standard time
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281 should be used.
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286 Localized Time-zone Names
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287 -------------------------
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288
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289 While the ``Locale`` class provides access to various locale display names
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290 related to time-zones, the process of building a localized name of a time-zone
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291 is actually quite complicated. Babel implements it in separately usable
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292 functions in the ``babel.dates`` module, most importantly the
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293 ``get_timezone_name`` function:
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296
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297 >>> from pytz import timezone
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298 >>> from babel import Locale
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299 >>> from babel.dates import get_timezone_name
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300
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301 >>> tz = timezone('Europe/Berlin')
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302 >>> get_timezone_name(tz, locale=Locale.parse('pt_PT'))
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303 u'Hor\xe1rio Alemanha'
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305 You can pass the function either a ``datetime.tzinfo`` object, or a
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306 ``datetime.date`` or ``datetime.datetime`` object. If you pass an actual date,
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307 the function will be able to take daylight savings time into account. If you
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308 pass just the time-zone, Babel does not know whether daylight savings time is
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309 in effect, so it uses a generic representation, which is useful for example to
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310 display a list of time-zones to the user.
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314 >>> from datetime import datetime
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315
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316 >>> dt = tz.localize(datetime(2007, 8, 15))
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317 >>> get_timezone_name(dt, locale=Locale.parse('de_DE'))
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318 u'Mitteleurop\xe4ische Sommerzeit'
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319 >>> get_timezone_name(tz, locale=Locale.parse('de_DE'))
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320 u'Deutschland'
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323 Parsing Dates
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324 =============
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326 Babel can also parse date and time information in a locale-sensitive manner:
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328 .. code-block:: pycon
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330 >>> from babel.dates import parse_date, parse_datetime, parse_time
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332 .. note:: Date/time parsing is not properly implemented yet
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