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Hi there,

Thanks for the great script! It's been very helpful for us at Oklahoma State. Looking at the DST offsets, I'm a bit confused on two fronts. I haven't been the one digging into it, but am now trying to help out and can't think this through on my own.

1. To me, offsets of 5 and 6 seem to correspond to Central time rather than Eastern time. At least, looking at a source like the tz database.
2. Going with 5 and 6 as the offsets for Central Daylight/Standard, if DST is in effect, shouldn't the offset then be smaller? Meaning, rather than this:

if DST.lower() == 'yes' or DST.lower() == 'y':
	DSTOffset = '6'
else:
	DSTOffset = '5'

It should look like this?

if DST.lower() == 'yes' or DST.lower() == 'y':
	DSTOffset = '5' # like 2017-03-29T18:29:29-05:00
else:
	DSTOffset = '6' # like 2017-03-29T18:29:29-06:00

Sorry if I'm totally missing something here. If that's the case, any help as to how to alter the script for Central Time would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!