In article <mailman.5257.1389274514.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kuma...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > > > Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kuma...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > >> Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > > >> > How, in Python, do you get an aware UTC datetime object? > > >> > > >> classmethod datetime.utcnow() > > >> > > >> Return the current UTC date and time, with tzinfo None. [â¦] > > > > > > No, that won't do what was asked. The âdatetime.datetime.utcnowâ > > > function explicitly returns a naive datetime object, not an aware > > > datetime object. > > > > Yes, but the documentation for utcnow explicitly tells you how to get > > an aware object. > > > > "An aware current UTC datetime can be obtained by calling > > datetime.now(timezone.utc)." > > And we come full circle: This is exactly what Roy's original question > was (IIUC) trying to address. That process is not obvious, and it's not > simple: it's a series of difficult-to-discover function calls instead of > just one obvious one. Yes, exactly. Thank you.
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