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How do I get a value of datetime.today() in Python that is "timezone aware"?

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00:58 Accepted answer (Score 481)
02:36 Answer 2 (Score 180)
02:55 Answer 3 (Score 161)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4530...

Accepted answer links:
[zoneinfo]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zonein...
[pytz library]: http://pytz.sourceforge.net/
[pytz documentation]: https://pythonhosted.org/pytz/
[What Every Developer Should Know About Time]: http://web.archive.org/web/2016080315462.../
[The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Answer 2 links:
[pytz]: https://pypi.org/project/pytz/

Answer 3 links:
[astimezone]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dateti...
[jfs' answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25421145/247...
[zoneinfo]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zonein...
[tzdata]: https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/

Answer 4 links:
[astimezone]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dateti...
[suggested by johnchen902]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4530...

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