refactor: simplify config parsing and init

got rid of all the overengineered configuration parsing, everything is more simple and the error handling is left to the user as it would only mean checking their configuration based on the error message

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/pyssg/utils.py b/src/pyssg/utils.py
index b1ed8c1..d391ccf 100644
--- a/src/pyssg/utils.py
+++ b/src/pyssg/utils.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import sys
 import shutil
 from hashlib import md5
 from logging import Logger, getLogger
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
 
 log: Logger = getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -106,3 +107,8 @@ def get_expanded_path(path: str) -> str:
         sys.exit(1)
     log.debug('expanded path "%s" to "%s"', path, expanded_path)
     return expanded_path
+
+
+def get_time_now(fmt: str, tz: timezone=timezone.utc) -> str:
+    return datetime.now(tz=tz).strftime(fmt)
+