import os import pytz from dateutil import parser local_timezone = pytz.timezone(os.getenv("TIMEZONE", "America/New_York")) def utc_string_to_aware_gmt_datetime(date): """ Date can either be a string, naïve UTC datetime or an aware UTC datetime Returns an aware local datetime, essentially the time you'd see on your clock """ date = parser.parse(date) forced_utc = date.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc) return forced_utc.astimezone(local_timezone)