How to get pytz timezone from common abbreviation (PST, EST, etc.)?

Question

This is a similar question as How to get the common name for a pytz timezone eg. EST/EDT for America/New_York , except I want to be able to just get a timezone from \"PST\" from

Answer 1

I ended up just manually making a dictionary that mapped abbreviations to timezone names. For example, 'PST' : 'America/Los_Angeles' would be an entry (as would PDT for the daylight savings abbreviation).