@tasks.loop(time=x) not working for me

[Nalanii]

Hello!

I have a very basic program that I'm trying to get up and running but for whatever reason, the time param for tasks.loop is not working for me. Here is my code:

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

import datetime
import discord
from discord.ext import tasks, commands
load_dotenv()
TOKEN = os.getenv('DISCORD_TOKEN')
intents = discord.Intents.default()

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='&', intents=intents)

goodNightTime = datetime.time(hour=19, minute=46) #Create the time on which the task should always run
print('goodNightTime: ', goodNightTime)

@tasks.loop(time=goodNightTime) #Create the task
async def Goodnight():
    print("BEGIN GOODNIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!")
    channel = bot.get_channel(522975347759775759)
    await channel.send("Good night! Make sure to go to sleep early, and get enough sleep!")
    print("Night Working")

@tasks.loop(minutes=1) #Create the task
async def Good_night_2():
    print("1 min interval")
    print('current time: ', datetime.datetime.now())
    channel = bot.get_channel(522975347759775759)
    await channel.send("1 min interval")


@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    if not Goodnight.is_running():
        Goodnight.start() #If the task is not already running, start it.
        print("Good night task started")
    if not Good_night_2.is_running():
        Good_night_2.start() #If the task is not already running, start it.
        print("Good night 2 task started")

bot.run(TOKEN)

Here's a screenshot of my output:

Overveiw:

• both tasks are started on_ready
• Good_night_2() prints every one minute and sends the message in the bot as expected
• Goodnight() never works!
• The time I'm passing into the tasks.loop(time=x) [aka goodNightTime] is always past the current time (as seen in the screenshot with red underlines)

PLEASE HELP!!

[fretgfr]

The time given defaults to UTC for a timezone if you don't specify per the documentation.

[Rapptz]

This is an issue with timezones. Naive times for the task extension are interpreted as UTC time, datetime.datetime.now() is a naive datetime representing local time. In order to make your datetime proper you need to make it an aware time for your local timezone. Using astimezone() is enough for that. e.g.

local_tz = datetime.datetime.now().astimezone().tzinfo
goodNightTime = datetime.time(hour=19, minute=46, tzinfo=local_tz)

[Nalanii]

Thank you so much 😭 I tried setting the timezone manually using timezone from pytz but it wasn't working for me. This did the trick!!