[issue12756] datetime.datetime.utcnow should return a UTC timestamp

Tony Rice added the comment: I would argue that PEP20 should win over backward compatibility, in addition to the points I hinted at above, practicality beats purity -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue12

[issue12756] datetime.datetime.utcnow should return a UTC timestamp

Tony Rice added the comment: This enhancement request should be reconsidered. Yes it is the documented behavior but that doesn't mean it's the right behavior. Functions should work as expected not just in the context of the module they are implemented in but the context of the problem

[issue46319] datetime.utcnow() should return a timezone aware datetime

New submission from Tony Rice : 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