Discover timezone via iControl

Found what I needed thanks to one of Joe's articles:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/tech-tips/articles/icontrol-101-19-time-conversions

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.System__SystemInfo__get_time_zone.ashx

 

 

And this little bit of code is hopefully how one can sanely convert the datetime objects into epoch -- Python makes moving from datetime objects to epoch a slight pain in the arse, unfortunately.

 

 

from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta, datetime
from pprint import pformat

class TZFixedOffset(tzinfo):
    """Fixed offset in minutes east from UTC."""

    def __init__(self, offset, name):
        self.__offset = timedelta(minutes = offset)
        self.__name = name

    def utcoffset(self, dt):
        return self.__offset

    def tzname(self, dt):
        return self.__name

    def dst(self, dt):
        return timedelta(0)

...

    logging.info("Retrieving global IP statistics...")
    ip_stats = b.System.Statistics.get_ip_statistics()
    logging.debug("ip_stats =\n%s" % pformat(ip_stats))
    ts = ip_stats['time_stamp']
    dt = datetime(ts['year'], ts['month'], ts['day'], ts['hour'], ts['minute'], ts['second'], tzinfo=tz)
    logging.debug("dt = %s" % dt)
    timestamp = int((dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=TZFixedOffset(0, "UTC"))).total_seconds())
    logging.debug("timestamp = %s" % timestamp)