Proposal: Drop dependency on pytz in favor of zoneinfo

[aDramaQueen]

Hi,
pytz is/was a good llibrary. But it's obsolete since PEP 615. In the long run, you should not use this 3rd party package, but the language integrated functionality.
Even big frameworks like Django (Django 4.0 Release Info) already dropped pytz.

[pjrobertson]

Agreed. Django now uses zoneinfo by default, and backports backports.zoneinfo if the user is not running pyhton 3.9.

pytz support will be dropped in Django 5.0. Django-rest should switch to using zoneinfo by default.

More info from here

Time zone support uses zoneinfo, which is part of the Python standard library from Python 3.9. The backports.zoneinfo package is automatically installed alongside Django if you are using Python 3.8.
Changed in Django 3.2:

zoneinfo was made the default timezone implementation. You may continue to use pytz during the 4.x release cycle via the USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ setting.