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`freeze_time` could accept a timezone argument

See original GitHub issue

What do you think of having freeze_time accept a timezone argument:

@freeze_time('2015-03-09 09:00:00', timezone='US/Pacific')

That would require adding pytz to the requirements, which should be fine since most Python projects have it.

Thoughts? I might develop it.

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Created 9 years ago
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shreevatsarcommented, Aug 18, 2015

Just FYI: one can already pass freeze_time a timezone-aware datetime object:

d = datetime(2015, 8, 18, 8, 51, 50, tzinfo=pytz.timezone('America/Los_Angeles'))
with freeze_time(d):
    print datetime.now()

(prints 2015-08-18 08:51:50-08:00)

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ze-phyr-uscommented, Jan 18, 2016

@spulec That’s a shame. While it works, it’s a bit clumsy for an extremely common use case. (I, at least, have zero Python projects that can afford to ignore time zones.)

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