After a user logs in, I am setting a session variable to the time with utc.. but the timezone is getting stripped.
import datetime
from pytz import timezone
utc = timezone('utc')
session['login_time'] = datetime.datetime.now(utc)
When I print after the assignment the timezone is there 2021-06-11 23:56:00.161971+00:00. And a decorator function gets called. When I print session['login_time'] the timezone is removed. 2021-06-11 23:56:00
For me, I will use .strftime to help format the datetime and %Z is to show the timezone.
You can see the strftime document to help you format the time. I will use this code to replace your original one:
session['login_time'] = datetime.datetime.now(utc).strftime('"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%Z"')
login_time = datetime.datetime.strptime(session['login_time'],"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%Z" )
utct = utc.localize(login_time)
print(utct)
print(type(utct))
And here is the output:
2021-06-12 01:00:23+00:00
<class 'datetime.datetime'>
I had to re-add the timezone('utc') when i needed to use the time in another function.
def diff_min(t):
utc = timezone('utc')
t = utc.localize(t)