Fixed dependency deprecation and updated .gitignore

[alex-cantor]

• Replaced deprecated datetime.utcnow() with datetime.now(UTC)
• Updated .gitignore to exclude .vscode and venv folders

[tompohl]

What version deprecates utcnow? I get this in my local with your new code
ImportError: cannot import name 'UTC' from 'datetime' (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/datetime.py)

[alex-cantor]

It looks like you are running python3.9 (which reached end-of-life support on 2025-10-31). The current version is python3.11.

So, since datetime is native to Python, I’d expect that is the issue?

Thus, if you update your Python version and indicate in the README.md (I can’t at the moment—I’m not at my PC) that Python should be up to date at v3.11, that should fix the problem.

I could also look for an alternative solution, but seeing as v3.9 is at end-of-life support, this seems like a needed change.