Forcing datetime to utc

panoptes/utils/tests/test_utils.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import pytest
 import signal
 import time
+from datetime import timezone as tz
 from datetime import datetime as dt
 from astropy import units as u
 
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ def test_pretty_time():
 
     # This will increment one second - see docs
     t3 = current_time(datetime=True)
-    assert t3 == dt(2016, 8, 13, 10, 0, 2)
+    assert t3 == dt(2016, 8, 13, 10, 0, 2, tzinfo=tz.utc)
 
 
 def test_countdown_timer_bad_input():

panoptes/utils/time.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import os
 import time
+from datetime import timezone as tz
+
 from astropy import units as u
 from astropy.time import Time
 
@@ -67,7 +69,7 @@ def current_time(flatten=False, datetime=False, pretty=False):
 
     if datetime:
         # Add UTC timezone
-        _time = _time.to_datetime()
+        _time = _time.to_datetime(timezone=tz.utc)
 
     return _time
 

requirements.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ numpy
 photutils
 pyserial
 python-dateutil
-pytz
 PyYAML
 pyzmq
 ruamel.yaml>=0.15