Question

Apparently, I must run pytz.UTC.localize(datetime.datetime.now()) before I compare the current time with other “naive” time objects.

Why is that? Isn’t the current time relevant to specific time zones?

Answer 1

>>> datetime.datetime.now().utcoffset() is None
True

The now function does indeed return a naive object. It contains field values for day and time that are populated according to locale settings. That is why a separate utcnow is provided; that always gives you UTC field values (though it is still naive).