[Python-ideas] timezone-aware datetime.now

2020-01-04 Thread Random832
Right now there is no simple way to get a timezone-aware time for the current time in the current time zone [without resorting to outside libraries like pytz], I would like to propose a simple extension to datetime.now to allow returning an aware datetime object using a plain single-offset tzinf

[Python-ideas] Re: timezone-aware datetime.now

2020-01-04 Thread Random832
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, at 15:11, Random832 wrote: > ... I just discovered, in the course of trying to make a more fleshed-out implementation, that the correct way to do this is datetime.now().astimezone(None) - this isn't explained very well in the documentation. I did notice, though that a date