How do I convert my constant into a timezone?

Question

I'm using Python 3.7. I have this defined in my settings file ...

TIME_ZONE = 'America/New York'

I want to make the "now()" function timezone aware, so I can do some date subtraction ...

int(round((datetime.now(settings.TIME_ZONE) - article.created_on).total_seconds() / 60)) > 10

But I keep getting this error

TypeError: tzinfo argument must be None or of a tzinfo subclass, not type 'str'

How do I convert my constant into a timezone?

Answer 1

Use the pytz library.

tz = pytz.timezone(TIME_ZONE)

This will give you a tzinfo object that you can pass to .now()