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A tiny library for working with UTC time.

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It Should Be Easier

The current Python landscape doesn’t make it simple enough to use timezone aware timestamps.

It’d be nice if datetime.datetime.now() gave you a timezone-aware datetime in your current timezone, but it doesn’t.

You’d expect datetime.datetime.utcnow() to at least be timezone-aware, right? No. There’s no tzinfo on the datetime you get back from that function.

The pytz package has comprehensive support for time zones, and if you need to do something complicated, you should use that. But you don’t always need to do something complicated. Sometimes you just want UTC.

This package provides syntactic sugar around simple UTC handling that I’ve rewritten in too many times in past projects.

Usage

There is a now() function that does the right thing:

>>> import utc
>>> utc.now()
datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 30, 16, 51, 50, 316963, tzinfo=<UTC>)

And a datetime constructor that is UTC by default:

>>> utc.datetime(1900, 1, 1, 13, 25)
datetime.datetime(1900, 1, 1, 13, 25, tzinfo=<UTC>)

And a time constructor too:

>>> utc.time(13, 26, 36)
datetime.time(13, 26, 36, tzinfo=<UTC>)

That is all.

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