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How to convert local time to different UTC time stamps depending on whether there is, or there isn't DST in effect
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offset_detection_pytz.py
>>> import pytz
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> pytz.timezone('US/Mountain').localize(datetime(year=2016, month=11, day=3, hour=12, minute=0)).astimezone(pytz.UTC).isoformat()
'2016-11-03T18:00:00+00:00'
>>> pytz.timezone('US/Mountain').localize(datetime(year=2016, month=11, day=7, hour=12, minute=0)).astimezone(pytz.UTC).isoformat()
'2016-11-07T19:00:00+00:00'
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