Geography: Always prefer IANA timezones over UTC offsets

Even if the UTC offsets are given on a more specific entity,
they are usually worthless to us (eg. DST).

plugins/Geography/test.py

@@ -180,6 +180,12 @@ class GeographyWikidataTestCase(SupyTestCase):
             utils.time.iana_timezone("America/New_York"),
         )
 
+        self.assertEqual(
+            # Paris, France
+            wikidata.timezone_from_uri("http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90"),
+            utils.time.iana_timezone("Europe/Paris"),
+        )
+
     @skipIf(not network, "Network test")
     def testParentQualifiedIgnorePreferred(self):
         # The queried object does not have a TZ property,

plugins/Geography/wikidata.py

@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?rank ?endtime ?appliestopart ?utcoffset ?tzid (MIN(?are
   # Get the area, will be used to order by specificity
   OPTIONAL { ?statementsubject wdt:P2046 ?area. }
 
+  # Require that ?timezone be an instance of...
+  ?timezone (wdt:P31/wdt:P279*) <$tztype>.
+
   {
     # Get either an IANA timezone ID...
     ?timezone wdt:P6687 ?tzid.
@@ -130,7 +133,11 @@ def _query_sparql(query):
 def timezone_from_uri(location_uri):
     """Returns a :class:datetime.tzinfo object, given a Wikidata Q-ID.
     eg. ``"Q60"`` for New York City."""
-    data = _query_sparql(TIMEZONE_QUERY.substitute(subject=location_uri))
+    for tztype in [
+        "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17272692", # IANA timezones first
+        "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12143", # any timezone as a fallback
+    ]:
+        data = _query_sparql(TIMEZONE_QUERY.substitute(subject=location_uri, tztype=tztype))
         results = data["results"]["bindings"]
         for result in results:
             if "tzid" in result: