Jul 13 - Optimize code

app/utils/time.py

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+"""Time helpers.
+
+`datetime.utcnow()` is deprecated on Python 3.12+. This helper preserves the
+existing *naive UTC* semantics the codebase relies on (DB columns are naive
+`DateTime`, and comparisons assume naive UTC) while avoiding the deprecation:
+we build an aware UTC datetime and strip the tzinfo, yielding the exact same
+value `datetime.utcnow()` used to return.
+"""
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
+
+def utcnow() -> datetime:
+    """Current UTC time as a naive datetime (tzinfo stripped)."""
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).replace(tzinfo=None)