converting from local to utc timezone

Question

I\'m attempting to craft a function that takes a time object and converts it to UTC time. The code below appears to be off by one hour. When i run noon through the converter,

Answer 1

Change

src_dt = dt.replace(tzinfo=src_tz)

to

src_dt = src_tz.localize(dt)

Using localize adjusts for Daylight Savings Time, while replace does not. See the section entitled "Localized times and date arithmetic" in the docs.