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Mock datetime with time-machine in Python

Use the time-machine library to travel to a fixed datetime when running tests or scripts, mocking datetime.utcnow().

testing datetime mock
Python 
from time_machine import travel
from datetime import datetime


@travel("2020-01-01 10:30:00")
def check_date():
    return datetime.utcnow()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(check_date())
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