awaredatetime
Module providing a timezone aware datetime.datetime
compatible object.
Supports CPython 2.6 - 3.5 and PyPy.
Motivation
datetime.datetime
objects aren't aware by default.
New projects should always use timezone aware datetime.datetime
objects, but the Python standard library doesn't make that easy.
AwareDatetime
is here to help!
You may also have existing code that needs to become timezone aware and migrating code to become timezone aware is tricky.
Using AwareDatetime
will help you track what code has been migrated to support timezone.
awaredatetime.AwareDatetime
A drop-in replacement for datetime.datetime
that always provide timezone aware objects.
Example Usage
>>> from awaredatetime import AwareDatetime
>>> AwareDatetime(2016, 1, 1)
AwareDatetime(2016, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=<UTC>)
>>> import datetime
>>> AwareDatetime.from_datetime(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1))
AwareDatetime(2016, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=<UTC>)
>>>
awaredatetime.AwareTime
Not implemented since times with a timezone don't make sense.
e.g. What's the expected behavior for coverting 24:00:00+00:00
to positive UTC offset?
Dependencies
The only dependency is pytz
. We recommend that you use the latest version of pytz
, but this package will not force that upon you.
Migrating Existing Code
Similar work
-
datetime_tz
- Another timezone aware drop-in replacement for the
datetime
module, but overrides more datetime behavior