Currently, datetime.timezone requires that the offset be specified explicitly.

It would be more convenient if the local offset was used by default.

Since the time module already exposes the offset details for the local timezone, this would just make:

  local_tz = datetime.timezone()

equivalent to the current complex incantation:

  local_tz = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=(time.timezone / -3600 + tm.tm_isdst)))

Then getting a timezone aware version of the local time would just be:

  now = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone())

Similar to the existing spelling for UTC:

  now = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)

(Inspired by http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting#timezone-offset-notes)

The problem with this idea is that while evaluating datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone()), python will have to query the real time clock twice (first in timezone() and then in now()).  At a particularly unfortunate time this may result in an error.  Unlikely? Yes, but I would not board a python powered airplane if this problem was in the standard library.

I gave a lot of thought to the problem of supporting timezone aware local time and issue9527 was the best solution I was able to come up with.

Marking as a duplicate of #9527.

If that API is added, the local fixed offset timezone will be accessible as datetime.datetime.localtime().tzinfo which would be simple enough.