[EdwardDiego]

There are so many footguns in the datetime lib.

That's why I use a Flake8 plugin to prohibit especially egregious footguns.

https://github.com/jkittner/flake8-ban-utcnow

[raverbashing]

Honestly yeah who in tarnation created that function and called it utcnow

These things are really frustrating

[mark-r]

Yeah, utcnow is completely broken. They should have fixed it when they created datetime.timezone.utc, but they didn't. The recommendation is to use datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) instead. utcnow should be deprecated and eventually removed.

[jessekv]

I recently learned that there is datetime.UTC which is an alias of datetime.timezone.utc

It helps a bit with the verbosity:

from datetime import datetime, UTC

datetime.now(UTC)

[maleldil]

That's from 3.11 onwards.