From eee4934efdf21f6d3bc576afd02a63cf96485299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: perpil <97474956+perpil@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:22:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed blog plugin crashing on missing timezone (regression)
 (#7730)

* Default timezone to UTC for blog plugin created date

Fix for https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/issues/7725

* Fix variable name

* Run build
---
 material/plugins/blog/structure/options.py | 6 +++++-
 src/plugins/blog/structure/options.py      | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/material/plugins/blog/structure/options.py b/material/plugins/blog/structure/options.py
index a7bab08fe..1dde16ea8 100644
--- a/material/plugins/blog/structure/options.py
+++ b/material/plugins/blog/structure/options.py
@@ -66,7 +66,11 @@ class PostDate(BaseConfigOption[DateDict]):
             # Handle datetime - since datetime is a subclass of date, we need
             # to check it first, or we lose the time - see https://t.ly/-KG9N
             if isinstance(value, datetime):
-                continue
+                # Set timezone to UTC if not set
+                if value.tzinfo is None:
+                    config[key_name][key] = value.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+                continue;
+
 
             # Handle date - we set 00:00:00 as the default time, if the author
             # only supplied a date, and convert it to datetime in UTC
diff --git a/src/plugins/blog/structure/options.py b/src/plugins/blog/structure/options.py
index a7bab08fe..1dde16ea8 100644
--- a/src/plugins/blog/structure/options.py
+++ b/src/plugins/blog/structure/options.py
@@ -66,7 +66,11 @@ class PostDate(BaseConfigOption[DateDict]):
             # Handle datetime - since datetime is a subclass of date, we need
             # to check it first, or we lose the time - see https://t.ly/-KG9N
             if isinstance(value, datetime):
-                continue
+                # Set timezone to UTC if not set
+                if value.tzinfo is None:
+                    config[key_name][key] = value.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+                continue;
+
 
             # Handle date - we set 00:00:00 as the default time, if the author
             # only supplied a date, and convert it to datetime in UTC