Use ZoneInfo as primary source of timezone data #8924
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Description
This PRs switches over to
ZoneInfoas the primary source of timezone data in DRF. This PR accomplishes several things:pytz.pytzfunctionality over toZoneInfo.ZoneInfotimezones. This is because unlikepytz, error checking has to be done more or less manually in able to determine ambiguous and imaginary timezones (see this doc on migrating toZoneInfo). We previously had exception handling inDateTimeFieldforpytzerrors, but I added manually checking that will coverZoneInfotimezones.Django will provide us
ZoneInfoinstances as long asUSE_DEPRECATED_PYTZis not enabledFixes #8577