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There are so many footguns in the datetime lib. That's why I use a Flake8 plugin to prohibit especially egregious footguns. https://github.com/jkittner/flake8

There are so many footguns in the datetime lib. That's why I use a Flake8 plugin to prohibit especially egregious footguns. https://github.com/jkittner/flake8-ban-utcnow https://github.com/jkittner/flake8-ban-utcnow

raverbashing 2y ago
Honestly yeah who in tarnation created that function and called it utcnow These things are really frustrating
- mark-r 2y ago
  Yeah, utcnow is completely broken. They should have fixed it when they created datetime.timezone.utc, but they didn't. The recommendation is to use datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) instead. utcnow should be deprecated and eventually removed.
  - jessekv 2y ago
    I recently learned that there is datetime.UTC which is an alias of datetime.timezone.utc It helps a bit with the verbosity: from datetime import datetime, UTC datetime.now(UTC)
    - maleldil 2y ago
      That's from 3.11 onwards.
      - deleted 2y ago
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