awaredatetime

Module providing a timezone aware datetime.datetime compatible object.

Supports CPython 2.6 - 3.5 and PyPy.

Features

• Drop-in replacement for datetime.datetime
• Simple implementation that leverages the built-in datetime module as much as possible
• Excellent test coverage

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
• arrow - An API-compatible re-write of the datetime module