Why timezone inside unittest in Django is different from timezone in view?

Question

I'm using TestCase.client to test my views. And when I call timezone.now() from test case, i get 2015-11-17 07:48:26.826661+00:00, but when I call

   start = timezone.make_aware(datetime.strptime(
        date_text + ' ' + time,
        '%y/%m/%d %H:%M'
    ))

from view I get 2015-11-17 07:36:00+02:00.

How to make them use the same timezone?

I'm running using ./manage.py test --settings=www.tests_settings and www/tests_settings.py contains following:

from .settings import *

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
    }
}

USE_TZ = True
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Kiev'


>>> django.__version__
'1.8.4'
>>> pytz.__version__
'2015.7'
>>> sys.version
'3.4.3 (default, Mar 26 2015, 22:03:40) \n[GCC 4.9.2]'

Answer 1

Oh, I see. make_aware returns time in default time zone, and now - in UTC. And to get local current time, I need to do timezone.localtime(timezone.now()).

But documentation recommends to deal with time and timezones like with text and encodings - store everything in UTC (unicode) and convert only when receiving or giving it to user.