> I need to compare these datetimes, and if I do that I get the dreaded > "can't compare offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes" error.
If you're sure the naive datetimes are UTC, this should work: import pytz dt = pytz.utc.localize(dateutil.parser.parse('2016-04-27T00:00:00')) You can then compare it with other tz-containing datetime objects. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list