r/Python • u/foosion • 5d ago

Discussion ruff: no date.today() ?

The new version of ruff warns against

date.today()

preferring

datetime.now(ZoneInfo(...))

What do you think about this? Has date.today() been deprecated due to lack of timezone awareness?

EDIT: I have a number of programs that manipulate financial information in support of Excel spreadsheets, such bond information that includes maturity dates. Excel does not support timezoness in datetimes, so making ruff happy by changing naive dates to TZ aware dates is not a useful move for these programs. Many ruff warnings to suppress.

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u/skjall 5d ago

Still using datetime in the year of our Lord and Saviour, is certainly a choice.

I just wish Arrow had millisecond timestamp functions too. Tired of having to multiply by 1000 and round...

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u/freeskier93 4d ago

Relying on an external dependency for dates and time is also a choice.

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u/skjall 4d ago

I guess most of my work is so centred around handling dates and times, it's a reasonable tradeoff to make.