Support creating aware datetime objects using django.utils.timezone

[Ebram Shehata]

I think it'd be convenient if we support creating datetime objects using django.utils.timezone.
Maybe something like:

from django.utils import timezone


dt = timezone.datetime(year=2023, month=2, day=25)

and that will give a timezone aware datetime (based on settings.TIME_ZONE).

Use case: I'm currently working on a project in which I needed to manually create an initial datetime object and compare it later with another one created using timezone.now() but I had an error raised from DRF:

can't compare offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes

As the error explains, it can't compare naive and aware offsets! It'd be good to be able to create new datetime objects using django's timezone module without having to do it using other work arounds.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Thanks for this ticket, however Django already provides multiple ways to create time-zone aware datetimes, you can use ​make_aware() or timezone.now().replace(year=2023, ...), see ​docs.