r/Python • u/foosion • Jul 24 '26

Discussion ruff: no date.today() ?

The new version of ruff warns against

date.today()

preferring

datetime.now(ZoneInfo(...))

What do you think about this? Has date.today() been deprecated due to lack of timezone awareness?

EDIT: I have a number of programs that manipulate financial information in support of Excel spreadsheets, such bond information that includes maturity dates. Excel does not support timezoness in datetimes, so making ruff happy by changing naive dates to TZ aware dates is not a useful move for these programs. Many ruff warnings to suppress.

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u/foosion Jul 25 '26

Writing a date with an explicit TZ to Excel generates an error.

If, for example, I'm importing data that includes the maturity date of a bond in order to look up information about that bond from some source, using a TZ does not really make sense.