'Helper that returns current time zone abbreviation and UTC offset
and accounts for daylight savings time'

def _get_time_zone_info(self, time_zone_str):

    time_zone = datetime.now(utc).astimezone(timezone(time_zone_str))
    abbr = time_zone.strftime('%Z')
    offset = time_zone.strftime('%z')
    return (abbr, offset)
