This PR changes the way that timestamps are converted from local time into UTC time. It uses Python's built-in timezone code instead the 3rd-party pytz module. In addition, I removed all of the code that was attempting to make use of the configured timezone because the configuration is currently hard-coded to "local". I added to TODO to remind us of our eventual intent to make use of the configuration.
Closes #455
This PR changes the way that timestamps are converted from local time into UTC time. It uses Python's built-in timezone code instead the 3rd-party
pytzmodule. In addition, I removed all of the code that was attempting to make use of the configured timezone because the configuration is currently hard-coded to "local". I added toTODOto remind us of our eventual intent to make use of the configuration.