Python - simplest and most coherent way to get timezone-aware current time in UTC?

Question

datetime.now() doesn\'t appear to have timezone info attached. I want the current time in UTC. What do I do?

>>> from datetime import         


        

Answer 1

Use datetime.utcnow() for the current time in UTC.

Adapting from this answer, here is how to make the object timezone-aware.

>>> import pytz
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.now(pytz.utc)
datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 11, 15, 34, 52, 229959, tzinfo=)