How to get "now" with DateTime<Timezone>?

[tobymurray]

Analogous to Utc::now, I'd like to get now as a DateTime<Timezone> for a given timezone, would this be the idiomatic way to do so?

Utc::now().with_timezone(timezone)

Similar to #169, I struggled a lot more than I think I ought to have to try and do some relatively straightforward seeming tasks.

I'd love to:

• hear if there's a better way to do it
• add to the documentation (open to suggestions where would make a good fit, maybe right on DateTime#now?)
• commiserate with how hard it is to make an intuitive time library when it's so damn complicated! Thanks for all the work.

[epipheus]

I'd like to mention that many of us use DateTimeWithTimezone as DB storage by default but optionally still log UTC based date times which is just +0. The current Utc::now().with_timezone(&FixedOffset::east(0)) feels non-obvious and verbose and isn't terribly well documented. as mentioned in #169. Utc::now.as_fixed_offset() or Utc::now.as_date_with_timezone(). Even is as verbose, feels readable and obvious. My 2 cents.

[djc]

@epipheus PR welcome!

[pitdicker]

Analogous to Utc::now, I'd like to get now as a DateTime<Timezone> for a given timezone, would this be the idiomatic way to do so?

Utc::now().with_timezone(timezone)

Yes, this is the idiomatic way to do it.

#1030 added DateTime::fixed_offset and #1192 will add some examples to the documentation on using Utc::now() and Local::now().