Timezone Maker

variables for moscow, pacific, and india

using datetime.timezone?

Link to 3 part challenge: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/dates-and-times-in-python/where-on-earth-do-timezones-make-sense/timezone-maker

This was really confusing... It seemed obvious, I tried

 moscow = datetime.timezone + 4

...but it said something about type and int not being compatible! AAAARRRGGG!

Why aren't they compatible?

I almost broke down and started using pytz,

but I saw there were a bunch of forum posts that used timedelta for time zones,

so in the end I came up with (after much trial and error):

import datetime

moscow = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=4))
pacific = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=-8))
india = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=+5.5))

..and for some reason (??) it passed.

Note: I also spent an hour fiddling around with astimezone() to no avail.

Hopefully others doing this Python DateTime find this post and aren't as frustrated as I was..