From ddb1c5156946d51a1b5c283751c967cf60e825c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fawce <fawce@quantopian.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:14:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] moved epoch_now to date_utils

---
 zipline/date_utils.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/zipline/date_utils.py b/zipline/date_utils.py
index 14a88571..85ff98d3 100644
--- a/zipline/date_utils.py
+++ b/zipline/date_utils.py
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ def UN_EPOCH(ms_since_epoch):
 def iso8061_to_epoch(datestring):
     dt = parse_iso8061(datestring)
     return EPOCH(dt)
+    
+def epoch_now():
+    dt = datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)
+    return EPOCH(dt)
 
 # UTC Datetime Subclasses
 # -----------------------