How to make pywin32 work with pyinstaller to make an executable?

Question

I was trying to make a code where I had to change creation time of a file to creation time of another file (copying creation time from one file to another). I could find some answers about changing creation time on the following links and they work very well as well.

How do I change the file creation date of a Windows file?

Modify file create / access / write timestamp with python under windows

But when I try to put the code mentioned in an executable using pyinstaller it shows the following error:

AttributeError: 'pywintypes.datetime' object has no attribute 'astimezone'

How can I get over this error?

Below is the code which can be used to reproduce the situatuion

import pywintypes, win32file, win32con, ntsecuritycon
import os

def changeFileCTime(fname, createdNewtime):
    wintime = pywintypes.Time(int(createdNewtime))
    winfile = win32file.CreateFile(fname, ntsecuritycon.FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES, 0, None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, 0, None)
    win32file.SetFileTime(winfile, wintime, None, None)
    winfile.close()

def main():
    filename = input("File to copy creation time from: ")
    ctime = os.path.getctime(filename)

    filename = input("File to set ctime to: ")
    changeFileCTime(filename, ctime)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Versions of programs:

Python - 3.8.2
Pyinstaller - 4.1

pyinstaller code:

pyinstaller --onefile --console test.py

where test.py is the filename with the above code.

How to make pywin32 work with pyinstaller to make an executable?

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