[Belphemur]

They should have gone further like .NET 8.0 with a full class abstraction for datetime provider: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotn...

This is 10x better and helps to assure the code can be unit tested with providing the exact date we want in the exact format/timezone

[lallysingh]

That's a lot of complexity. How's that better than requiring an arg with the timezone?

[rjbwork]

Because you can now fully simulate arbitrary times during testing by providing your own implementation of the time provider. If you just take in a timezone as an argument, how will you simulate it being 2041-08-23T21:17:05.023743Z?

[SpaghettiCthulu]

Uh, just assign your mock function to `<insert name here>`? Python is really the wrong language to be complaining about a lack of mockability.

[rjbwork]

True. When you can just make any function be whatever you want whenever you want that sort of abstraction does seem a big much. I was responding to the specific question in reference to the time provider in .net 8.

[SpaghettiCthulu]

Ah, fair enough. C# certainly presents more of a need for that sort of abstraction, being a statically typed language.