Python date.today shows the next day

Question

I'm astounded by some code I wrote some time ago. For not entering in much detail i have a method that runs through some objects, wich have a date parameter. If the date parameter is equal to today's date, goes on.

I have set this in my local machine for test and have like 695 objects all with the same date, today, but when the action is run nothing happens, so i debug it to find that my expression date.today() returns datetime.date(2014, 3, 19).

This is is incorrect, as the date of my computer from the date command is Tue Mar 18 20:56:09 AST 2014.

I used from datetime import date. This is one of the more cryptic errors i have ever got. Any experience someone can share here? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

The method is not timezone aware and there's no platform-independent way to make it so. What is generally done is incorporate something like pytz and call .today() as:

datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo = pytz.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')