# Why is datetime.utcnow deprecated?

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**Category:** Python Help\
**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/why-is-datetime-utcnow-deprecated/86868 "2025-04-01T22:23:35Z")\
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> [@Rosuav](#):
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> The problem is, that is NOT a timezone-aware object. It is a naive object that happens to correspond to the

And in many cases that’s what users want, as already discussed in length in [Deprecating `utcnow` and `utcfromtimestamp`](https://discuss.python.org/t/deprecating-utcnow-and-utcfromtimestamp/26221)

Frankly Python standard library datetime timezones have design choices I would consider such bad footguns that I would never recommend people use them unless they have an intricate understanding of said design choices.

[@moderators](https://discuss.python.org/groups/moderators) why was this topic split? By removing context of this discussion we’re wasting time and energy repeating things already discussed there.

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