RFE: use zoneinfo instead of pytz

Switch to standard zoneinfo module.
Below may help pydantic/pydantic-core@fd262933

[tkloczko@pers-jacek flask-babel-4.0.0]$ grep -r pytz
README.md:[babel][] and [pytz][] modules.
README.md:[pytz]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/
docs/index.rst:any Flask application with the help of `babel`_, `pytz`_ and its own copy of
docs/index.rst:.. _pytz: https://pythonhosted.org/pytz/
flask_babel/__init__.py:from pytz import timezone, UTC
flask_babel/__init__.py:        `pytz.timezone` object.
flask_babel/__init__.py:    a `pytz.timezone` object.  This returns `None` if used outside a request.
pyproject.toml:pytz = ">=2022.7"

zoneinfo is only available in Python 3.9+ and we currently support versions before that. When 3.8 hits EOL in 2024-10, we'll switch.

All what you wrote is 100% accurate.
In dropped in RFE commit you have example how to handle that.

There is backports.zoneinfo (and Django 4.2 uses it, for example)

Is this related to this error I'm seeing:

def to_user_timezone(...):
    ...
    timezone (as returned by :func:`get_timezone`) this function can be used.
    """
    if datetime.tzinfo is None:
        datetime = datetime.replace(tzinfo=UTC)
    tzinfo = get_timezone()
    return tzinfo.normalize(datetime.astimezone(tzinfo))

'zoneinfo.ZoneInfo' object has no attribute 'normalize'

zoneinfo is only available in Python 3.9+ and we currently support versions before that. When 3.8 hits EOL in 2024-10, we'll switch.

Would a PR be welcome?

When 3.8 hits EOL in 2024-10, we'll switch.

We're past that date. PR to remove Python 3.8 is at #245.

Python 3.9 will be EOL as well in less than three months.

Would a PR be welcome?

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