converting from local to utc timezone

Question

I\'m attempting to craft a function that takes a time object and converts it to UTC time. The code below appears to be off by one hour. When i run noon through the converter,

Answer 1

By using the replace method on the datetime, you're not allowing the time zone to be adjusted for daylight savings time. Try using one of the documented methods from the pytz documentation:

src_dt = src_tz.localize(dt)