All Possible Ways to Remove Timezone Information from a Python `datetime` Object
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A Python datetime object is considered timezone-aware if its tzinfo attribute is set, and timezone-naive if tzinfo is None. Removing timezone information, or "making it naive," is the process of setting this attribute to None.
The key consideration when stripping the timezone is which time value you want to keep: the time as it was originally represented, or the time converted to a standard reference (like UTC or local time) before stripping the timezone.