Learn how to work with date and time values using Python's datetime library, and how to avoid some of the gotchas and pitfalls of the datetime datatype.

I wanted to convert a datetime object (from GitPython) to UTC without adding the pytz dependency.

I was getting the following warning for one of my Python test suites: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware ...