On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 10:42 AM Python <pyt...@bladeshadow.org> wrote: > > As best I can tell, Python has no means to make use of the system's > timezone info. In order to make datetime "timezone aware", you need > to manually create a subclass of datetime.tzinfo, whose methods return > the correct values for the timezone you care about. In the general > case, this is hard, but since the timezone my dates are in is always > GMT, it's no problem: > > class GMT(datetime.tzinfo): > def utcoffset(self, dt): > return datetime.timedelta(hours=0) > def dst(self, dt): > return datetime.timedelta(minutes=0) > def tzname(self, dt): > return "GMT" > > Now, you can instantiate a datetime.datetime object with the times you > want, and pass an instance of this class as the tzinfo argument to the > constructor. Also no problem:
Rather than try to create your own GMT() object, have you considered using datetime.timezone.utc ? I tested it in your examples and it works just fine. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
