my.time.tz.via_location: provide default (empty) config if user doesn't have time config defined

my/config.py

@@ -80,8 +80,11 @@ class location:
         accuracy: float
 
 
+from my.core.compat import Literal
 class time:
     class tz:
+        policy: Literal['keep', 'convert', 'throw']
+
         class via_location:
             fast: bool
             sort_locations: bool

my/time/tz/via_location.py

@@ -7,12 +7,30 @@ REQUIRES = [
 ]
 
 
+## user might not have tz config section, so makes sense to be more defensive about it
+# todo might be useful to extract a helper for this
+try:
     from my.config import time
+except ImportError as ie:
+    if ie.name != 'time':
+        raise ie
+else:
+    try:
+        user_config = time.tz.via_location
+    except AttributeError as ae:
+        if not ("'tz'" in str(ae) or "'via_location'"):
+            raise ae
+
+# deliberately dynamic to prevent confusing mypy
+if 'user_config' not in globals():
+    globals()['user_config'] = object
+##
+
+
 from my.core import dataclass
 
-
 @dataclass
-class config(time.tz.via_location):
+class config(user_config):
     # less precise, but faster
     fast: bool = True