From e0490aaec48ac68e74e4bbcda02e0ae136f361bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:50:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] when timezone

---
 README.rst | 13 +++++++++----
 maya.py    |  5 ++---
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 5f982b6..5b44651 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -24,10 +24,15 @@ Just playing with an API here::
     >>> tomorrow.datetime()
     datetime.datetime(2016, 12, 16, 15, 11, 30, 263350, tzinfo=<UTC>)
 
-    >>> tomorrow.year
-    2016
+    >>> rand_day = maya.when('2011-02-07', timezone='US/Eastern')
+    <MayaDT epoch=1297036800.0>
 
-    >>> tomorrow.microseconds
-    263350
+    # Note how this is the 6th, not the 7th.
+    >>> rand_day.day
+    6
+
+    # Always.
+    >>> rand_day.timezone
+    <UTC>
 
 Timezones fit in here somewhere...
diff --git a/maya.py b/maya.py
index c02c5f1..31d98fa 100644
--- a/maya.py
+++ b/maya.py
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ class MayaDT(object):
     def timezone(self):
         return pytz.timezone(self._timezone)
 
-
     def iso8601(self):
         return '{}Z'.format(self.datetime().isoformat())
 
@@ -94,8 +93,8 @@ def now():
     epoch = time.time()
     return MayaDT(epoch=epoch)
 
-def when(string):
-    dt = dateparser.parse(string)
+def when(string, timezone='UTC'):
+    dt = dateparser.parse(string, settings={'TIMEZONE': timezone})
     if dt is None:
         raise ValueError('invalid datetime input specified.')
     epoch = (dt - Datetime(*__epoch_start)).total_seconds()