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# Aware datetime For UTC

#### Sourcery suggestion id: `aware-datetime-for-utc`

#### Description

For getting the current time in UTC, use an aware datetime object with the
timezone explicitly set to UTC.

#### Before

```python
from datetime import datetime

this_moment_utc = datetime.utcnow()
```

#### After

```python
from datetime import datetime, timezone

this_moment_utc = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
```

#### Explanation

The
[documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.utcnow)
for the `datetime.datetime.utcnow()` function provides an excellent explanation
why we should prefer to use aware datetime objects:

> Warning: Because naive datetime objects are treated by many datetime methods
> as local times, it is preferred to use aware datetimes to represent times in
> UTC. As such, the recommended way to create an object representing the current
> time in UTC is by calling datetime.now(timezone.utc).