[Zope3-dev] mini-RFC: times and timezones

Garrett Smith garrett at mojave-corp.com
Sat Feb 26 19:51:45 EST 2005


Gary Poster wrote:
> So everyone is clear, hear are some more examples, if Stuart accepts
> the patch or something similar to it.
> 
> Current call to get a now that will be stored:
> 
> dt = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
> 
> After change:
> 
> from pytz import utc
> dt = datetime.datetime.now(utc)
> 
> The call to convert timezone-aware datetimes from a user to utc will
> be this:
> 
> from pytz import utc
> aware.astimezone(utc)

Does this convert aware's timezone? Or return a new object?

 -- Garrett


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