unexpected results converting timezones in python

Question

I\'m trying to understand why I\'m getting these results when converting timezones to UTC:

In [74]: d1 = datetime(2007, 12, 5, 6, 30,tzinfo=pytz.timezone(\'U         


        

Answer 1

Unfortunately, creating timezone aware dates using this method doesn't work.

If you are using Django, they have a utility function, make_aware, that does this correctly.

from django.utils.timezone import make_aware
from pytz import timezone

unaware_datetime = datetime(2007, 12, 5)
local_datetime = make_aware(datetime(2007, 12, 5))
specific_datetime = make_aware(datetime(2007, 12, 5), timezone("Australia/Melbourne"))

If you're not using Django, then the source code for the make_aware function may give you inspiration.