Get rid of pendulum dependency? It's buggy and more or less unmaintained

[jonaslb]

I recently ran into a problem running prefect in a CI/CD pipeline due to a Pendulum bug (which prefect relies on). I realised that Pendulum has seen no updates in the last three years or so and it's looking for someone to do maintenance (ie author doesn't really have time for it).

Since Python's builtin datetime module has matured a lot in the last releases, and Pendulum's biggest selling point was sane timezone handling which datetime now also has, maybe Prefect should just get rid of it? It would have saved me a pain today at least, if this unnecessary dependency had been kept out.

I did report the bug to pendulum but I wouldn't hold my breath to see it fixed. Basically, just use the stdlib datetime instead?

[Expan75]

Hit this as well: @jonaslb did you manage to solve the issue?

[jonaslb]

Pendulum claims to have fixed the issue, so I don't think you're seeing the same. I suggest you open an issue yourself and describe what you've run into.