import datetime ZERO = datetime.timedelta(0) class UTC(datetime.tzinfo): def utcoffset(self, dt): return ZERO def dst(self, dt): return ZERO def tzname(self, dt): return "UTC" utc = UTC() mac_epoch = datetime.datetime(1904, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, utc) unix_epoch = datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, utc) osx_epoch = datetime.datetime(2001, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, utc)