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Django : timezone.now() is inappropriate even after making timedate object aware

Datetime objects are stored in UTC and are converted to local timezone while displaying. So when I call timezone.now(), it should convert the UTC to local timezone and display the time accordingly.

I have installed pytz as recommended by django.

I did the following :

Set USE_TZ = True in settings.py

and in models.py where I save the object to database

from django.utils import timezone time= timezone.now()

Also did timezone.activate(pytz.timezone("America/Los_Angeles"))

When I fetch the stored time,it is 2014-10-01 00:50:37, which is some hours ahead of present time. Where am I going wrong?

Solution

  • The time stored in database was in UTC which is right. Problem was when I was retrieving it, it wasn't being converted to local timezone, it was printing in UTC. So i had to convert it in the template as below:

    {% load tz %}
{{ value|timezone:"America/Los_Angeles" }}

    Phew, it worked!