[BUG]: datetime.utcnow() Deprecation

[Acuspeedster]

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🐛 datetime.utcnow() Deprecation

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name: 🐛 Bug Report
about: Create a report to help us improve FireForm.
title: "[BUG]: datetime.utcnow() deprecated and produces naive datetimes"
labels: bug
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⚡️ Describe the Bug

Template.created_at and FormSubmission.created_at use:

default_factory=datetime.utcnow

Python 3.12 deprecates datetime.utcnow().
It returns naive datetime objects (no tzinfo), causing:

• Potential TypeError when compared to aware datetimes
• Implicit UTC assumptions
• Forward-compatibility risk

📉 Expected Behavior

Use timezone-aware UTC datetimes:

datetime.now(timezone.utc)

🕵️ Possible Fix

Replace utcnow() with a helper returning timezone-aware UTC datetime.

[Acuspeedster]

pr #140 closes this