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I was going to complain that Python for all of its "batteries included" lacks a simple facility in the standard library to "please give me a timezone for EDT", but apparently one has been added in 3.9: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zoneinfo.html#module-zonei...

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The real problem that still is not fixed is that `datetime.date.now()` and others do not do the right thing and encode the system timezone. Rather they record a time without timezone. I have seen this cause so many problems because people are just not aware.

Actually, naïve times are considered aware in the system time zone. There's no good way to create a `tzinfo` object that behaves like "the system time zone" and doesn't have unfortunate consequences. See this article: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2022/04/naive-local-datetim...

It's not an ideal situation, but given path dependence I don't think it can be improved much from here.

Even worse is that utcnow() returns timezone unaware dates, when it could have easily returned dates with timezone set to utc. Leading to accidentally mix of local and utc times.

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