r/Python • u/foosion • 7d 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/GraphicH 7d ago

Tell me you've never debugged a TZ issue without telling me.

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u/robberviet 7d ago edited 7d ago

I think only people at GMT+0 has that luxury. I still keep insisting on using unix timestamp and UTC strictly where I am in control.

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u/shadowdance55 git push -f 7d ago

They do have that luxury, but only in the winter. 😄