From eb9640e54fc77df5b0f3da0dc55ab0589cb9ea95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SeaswimmerTheFsh <seaswimmerthefsh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:47:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat: added a util function for converting datetimes to iso
 8601 strings

---
 pyzipline/utils.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pyzipline/utils.py b/pyzipline/utils.py
index fc89f1d..2904f6f 100644
--- a/pyzipline/utils.py
+++ b/pyzipline/utils.py
@@ -11,3 +11,14 @@ def convert_str_to_datetime(date_string: str) -> datetime:
         datetime: Datetime object
     """
     return datetime.strptime(date_string, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ')
+
+def convert_datetime_to_str(datetime: datetime) -> str:
+    """Converts a datetime object to a Zipline (`ISO 8601`) date string
+
+    Args:
+        datetime: Datetime to convert
+
+    Returns:
+        str: Converted date string
+    """
+    return datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ')