• Make timezonefinder only required if you intend to run regenerate_data.py. If you run pip install tz-trout[dev] it will make sure you have timezonefinder installed as well.

Note: Python version >=3.6 is now required to use tz-trout.

In this version we:

• Drop Pyzipcode in favor of the Geonames.org US Postal Code dataset.
  • This gives us a more up to date zip code dataset for the US, since pyzipcode was using a dataset from 2004.
• Use TimezoneFinder to generate the map of US Zipcodes to Timezone IDs based on latitude and longitude from the Geonames.org dataset.