a method to report a human friendly string from a labDT object

        :param time_zone: [optional] string with timezone to report in
        :return: string with date and time info

def humanFriendly(self, time_zone='', include_day=True, include_time=True):

        ''' a method to report a human friendly string from a labDT object

        :param time_zone: [optional] string with timezone to report in
        :return: string with date and time info
        '''

    # validate inputs
        zeroHourPattern = re.compile('\s0\d:')
        title = 'Timezone input for labDT.humanFriendly'
        human_format = ''
        if include_day:
            human_format += '%A, '
        human_format += '%B %d, %Y'
        if include_time:
            human_format += ' %I:%M%p %Z'
        get_tz = get_localzone()
        if time_zone:
            # if time_zone.lower() in ('utc', 'uct', 'universal', 'zulu'):
            #     raise ValueError('time_zone cannot be UTC. %s requires a local timezone value. Try:\nfor tz in pytz.all_timezones:\n  print tz' % title)
            try:
                get_tz = tz.gettz(time_zone)
            except:
                raise ValueError('%s is not a valid timezone format. Try:\nfor tz in pytz.all_timezones:\n  print tz' % title)
        
    # construct human friendly string from labDT
        dtLocal = self.astimezone(get_tz)
        dtString = format(dtLocal, human_format)
        zeroHour = zeroHourPattern.findall(dtString)
        if zeroHour:
            noZero = zeroHour[0].replace(' 0',' ')
            dtString = zeroHourPattern.sub(noZero,dtString)
        return dtString