datetime with timezone field/template output strange behavior

Question

Timezone settings settings.py:

USE_TZ = True
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Moscow' # +4

Record in database table(postgresql 9.1, timestamp with timezone :

2012-12-19 15:30:51.164368+04

Django date filter:

date(object.date,"d.m.Y H:i:s"),

And after all this manipulations datetime filed output in template as :

19.12.2012 11:30:51

Why this happens? Why django don't use TZ information?

Answer 1

When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms.

Check this document, Django Doc