By default, the datetime
object is naive
in Python, so you need to make both of them either naive or aware datetime
objects. This can be done using:
import datetime import pytz utc=pytz.UTC challenge.datetime_start = utc.localize(challenge.datetime_start) challenge.datetime_end = utc.localize(challenge.datetime_end) # now both the datetime objects are aware, and you can compare them
Note: This would raise a ValueError
if tzinfo
is already set. If you are not sure about that, just use
start_time = challenge.datetime_start.replace(tzinfo=utc) end_time = challenge.datetime_end.replace(tzinfo=utc)
BTW, you could format a UNIX timestamp in datetime.datetime object with timezone info as following
d = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(int(unix_timestamp)) d_with_tz = datetime.datetime( year=d.year, month=d.month, day=d.day, hour=d.hour, minute=d.minute, second=d.second, tzinfo=pytz.UTC)