Tests: Use UTC-based utcnow().date() instead of localtime-based date.today()
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Other than the test addition this looks good to me.
The commit message could be clarified a bit. Using UTC is not automatically better - it depends on the use case.
What is a problem is that we were comparing utc variants with local variants in
crate-python/src/crate/client/sqlalchemy/doctests/itests.txt
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That is the problem and caused test flakyness.
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Please remove, there's no need to create tests that verify documented behavior of the standard library.
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Thanks. I've removed the test cases and amended the commit message.
`datetime.date.today()` returns the current local date. In order to reduce test flakyness when comparing UTC-based datetimes with localtime- based variants, `datetime.utcnow().date()` is a better choice.
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Motivation
utcnow()andutcfromtimestamp()for Python 3 #440, which went too far.About
datetime.date.today()returns the current local date. So, its outcome depends on the system time zone. Because we want to use UTC-based date and time objects instead,datetime.utcnow().date()is a better choice.