a method to generate the current datetime as a labDT object
        
        :return: labDT object

def new(cls):

        ''' a method to generate the current datetime as a labDT object
        
        :return: labDT object
        '''

        dT = datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)
        dt_kwargs = {
            'year': dT.year,
            'month': dT.month,
            'day': dT.day,
            'hour': dT.hour,
            'minute': dT.minute,
            'second': dT.second,
            'microsecond': dT.microsecond,
            'tzinfo': dT.tzinfo
        }
        return labDT(**dt_kwargs)