New submission from Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>:
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$ date -u +'%F %T %s %z'
2011-08-16 06:42:12 1313476932 +0000
$ python -c 'import sys, datetime; now = datetime.datetime.utcnow();
sys.stdout.write(now.strftime("%F %T %s %z"))'
2011-08-16 06:42:12 1313440932
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The documentation for ‘datetime.datetime.utcnow’ says “Return a new datetime
representing UTC day and time.” The resulting object should be in the UTC
timezone, not a naive no-timezone value.
This results in programs specifically requesting UTC time with ‘utcnow’, but
then Python treating the return value as representing local time since it is
not marked with the UTC timezone.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 142164
nosy: Daniel.O'Connor, bignose, r.david.murray
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: datetime.datetime.utcnow should return a UTC timestamp
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue12756>
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