How can I get the current time (now) in UTC?

Run this to obtain a naive datetime in UTC (and to add five minutes to it):

>>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta
>>> datetime.utcnow()
datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 26, 15, 41, 52, 441598)
>>> datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(minutes=5)
datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 26, 15, 46, 52, 441598)

If you would prefer a timezone-aware datetime object, run this in Python 3.2 or higher:

>>> from datetime import datetime, timezone
>>> datetime.now(timezone.utc)
datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 26, 15, 43, 54, 379421, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)