def _get_localzone(_root='/'):
    """Tries to find the local timezone configuration.

    This method prefers finding the timezone name and passing that to pytz,
    over passing in the localtime file, as in the later case the zoneinfo
    name is unknown.

    The parameter _root makes the function look for files like /etc/localtime
    beneath the _root directory. This is primarily used by the tests.
    In normal usage you call the function without parameters."""

    tzenv = _try_tz_from_env()
    if tzenv:
        return tzenv

    # Now look for distribution specific configuration files
    # that contain the timezone name.
    for configfile in ('etc/timezone', 'var/db/zoneinfo'):
        tzpath = os.path.join(_root, configfile)
        try:
            with open(tzpath, 'rb') as tzfile:
                data = tzfile.read()

                # Issue #3 was that /etc/timezone was a zoneinfo file.
                # That's a misconfiguration, but we need to handle it gracefully:
                if data[:5] == b'TZif2':
                    continue

                etctz = data.strip().decode()
                if not etctz:
                    # Empty file, skip
                    continue
                for etctz in data.decode().splitlines():
                    # Get rid of host definitions and comments:
                    if ' ' in etctz:
                        etctz, dummy = etctz.split(' ', 1)
                    if '#' in etctz:
                        etctz, dummy = etctz.split('#', 1)
                    if not etctz:
                        continue
                    return pytz.timezone(etctz.replace(' ', '_'))
        except IOError:
            # File doesn't exist or is a directory
            continue

    # CentOS has a ZONE setting in /etc/sysconfig/clock,
    # OpenSUSE has a TIMEZONE setting in /etc/sysconfig/clock and
    # Gentoo has a TIMEZONE setting in /etc/conf.d/clock
    # We look through these files for a timezone:

    zone_re = re.compile(r'\s*ZONE\s*=\s*\"')
    timezone_re = re.compile(r'\s*TIMEZONE\s*=\s*\"')
    end_re = re.compile('\"')

    for filename in ('etc/sysconfig/clock', 'etc/conf.d/clock'):
        tzpath = os.path.join(_root, filename)
        try:
            with open(tzpath, 'rt') as tzfile:
                data = tzfile.readlines()

            for line in data:
                # Look for the ZONE= setting.
                match = zone_re.match(line)
                if match is None:
                    # No ZONE= setting. Look for the TIMEZONE= setting.
                    match = timezone_re.match(line)
                if match is not None:
                    # Some setting existed
                    line = line[match.end():]
                    etctz = line[:end_re.search(line).start()]

                    # We found a timezone
                    return pytz.timezone(etctz.replace(' ', '_'))
        except IOError:
            # File doesn't exist or is a directory
            continue

    # systemd distributions use symlinks that include the zone name,
    # see manpage of localtime(5) and timedatectl(1)
    tzpath = os.path.join(_root, 'etc/localtime')
    if os.path.exists(tzpath) and os.path.islink(tzpath):
        tzpath = os.path.realpath(tzpath)
        start = tzpath.find("/")+1
        while start is not 0:
            tzpath = tzpath[start:]
            try:
                return pytz.timezone(tzpath)
            except pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError:
                pass
            start = tzpath.find("/")+1

    # Are we under Termux on Android? It's not officially supported, because
    # there is no reasonable way to run tests for this, but let's make an effort.
    if os.path.exists('/system/bin/getprop'):
        import subprocess
        androidtz = subprocess.check_output(['getprop', 'persist.sys.timezone'])
        return pytz.timezone(androidtz.strip().decode())

    # No explicit setting existed. Use localtime
    for filename in ('etc/localtime', 'usr/local/etc/localtime'):
        tzpath = os.path.join(_root, filename)

        if not os.path.exists(tzpath):
            continue
        with open(tzpath, 'rb') as tzfile:
            return pytz.tzfile.build_tzinfo('local', tzfile)

    raise pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError('Can not find any timezone configuration')