Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> added the comment: This is for backwards-compatibility as the UTC object did not come into existence until (I believe) Python 2.7. The docs for utcnow() explicitly state that if you want a timezone-aware UTC datetime object that you should use now() w/ the UTC object passed in.
Now if you would like to have a keyword argument for utcnow() to cause it to return a UTC object (e.g., utcnow(aware=True)), that may be a patch that could get accepted as it doesn't break backwards-compatibility if you leave the argument out. ---------- nosy: +brett.cannon resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12756> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
