title: Python pytz timezone function returns a timezone that is off by 9 minutes
body: <p>For some reason which I haven't been able to figure out yet, from the the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; from pytz import timezone
  &gt;&gt;&gt; timezone('America/Chicago')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;DstTzInfo 'America/Chicago' LMT-1 day, 18:09:00 STD&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When, I assume, I should get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;DstTzInfo 'America/Chicago' LMT-1 day, 18:00:00 STD&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...since I don't think that my timezone is 6 hours and 9 minutes away from UTC.</p>
  
  <p>I have looked at the <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/pytz" rel="noreferrer">source code for <code>pytz</code></a> but I will admit that I haven't exactly been able to figure out what is going wrong.</p>
  
  <p>I have passed other values to the <code>timezone()</code> function, and the values it returns appear to be correct. For some reason though, the information relevant to my timezone is not correct.</p>
  
  <p>Finally, my co-worker in the cube   next to me has confirmed that the function returns the correct timezone info on his machine.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any idea why my timezone (<code>'America/Chicago'</code>) would be off by 9 minutes? I am running version <code>2015.7</code> of <code>pytz</code> installed using <code>pip</code>. Thank you!</p>