New submission from Tony Rice <rtpho...@gmail.com>:
datetime.datetime.utcnow() returns a timezone naive datetime, this is counter-intuitive since you are logically dealing with a known timezone. I suspect this was implemented this way for fidelity with the rest of datetime.datetime (which returns timezone naive datetime objects). The workaround (see below) is to replace the missing tzinfo. Recommendation: By default datetime.datetime.utcnow() should return a timezone aware datetime (with tzinfo of UTC of course) or at least offer this behavoir as an option, e.g.: datetime.datetime.utcnow(timezone-aware=True) Workaround: dt = datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc) ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 410160 nosy: rtphokie priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: datetime.utcnow() should return a timezone aware datetime type: behavior versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46319> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
