Support setting and displaying timezone with the core metrics plugin

[natefoo]

I confused myself and spent too much time this morning looking at the zoneless time displayed under the core metrics for a job, hence this effort to clarify.

When the timezone metric param is unset the behavior remains the same as before. I wanted to get the local server timezone so that we could at least display the name/offset in this case, but doing so is non-trivial using the standard lib. We do have both dateutil (direct) and tzlocal (indirect) as dependencies, but only use dateutil in one place and I didn't want to add another use on a library we could easily rewrite out.

Before / no timezone set
Set to UTC
Set to EST5EDT

For a global server like usegalaxy.org it makes sense to just set it to UTC imo.

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[natefoo]

Hrm, I imagined that we had dropped 3.8, but I guess not yet?

[nsoranzo]

Hrm, I imagined that we had dropped 3.8, but I guess not yet?

I think Galaxy 25.0 is a good time to drop Python 3.8, happy to discuss at the Backed WG meeting.

[natefoo]

Converted to draft until 3.8 is dropped.