Linux and Python timezones

$ TZ=KST-9 date
# Thu Oct  3 15:51:21 KST 2013
$ date
# Thu Oct  3 09:51:23 FET 2013

$ ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
Africa      Asia       Canada
.....
$ ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe
Amsterdam  Belgrade    Bucharest  Copenhagen  Helsinki
.....

$ cat /etc/timezone
Europe/Minsk

python -c "import pytz;print pytz.all_timezones"
['Africa/Abidjan', 'Africa/Accra', 'Africa/Addis_Ababa', 'Africa/Algiers',
.....

import datetime, pytz
korea_tz = pytz.timezone('Asia/Seoul')
korea_time = korea_tz.localize(datetime.datetime(2013, 10, 2, 14, 0))
# datetime.datetime(2013, 10, 2, 14, 0, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Asia/Seoul' KST+9:00:00 STD>)
local_time = korea_time.astimezone(pytz.timezone('Europe/Minsk'))
# datetime.datetime(2013, 10, 2, 8, 0, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Europe/Minsk' FET+3:00:00 STD>)

List of time zone abbreviations
List of time zones by country