[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Isaac Schwabacher <ischwabacher at wisc.edu>
wrote:

> I just looked through the datetime documentation, and it looks like the
> currently blessed way of creating an aware datetime from a naive local
> datetime and a tzinfo is datetime.replace, which is too low level to handle
> the job.


Not quite.  That's how you would create a UTC datetime, but from there you
can get to your local timezone by calling astimezone() with no arguments:

>>> print(datetime.now(timezone.utc).astimezone())
2015-04-09 12:16:58.576272-04:00
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