Django feed framework: tzinfo error

I am using django feed framework. This is what I have in my feeds.py:

def item_pubdate(self, item):
    return item.posted

This is what I have in my Blog class in models.py:

posted = models.DateField(db_index=True, auto_now_add=True)

And I get this attribute error:

'datetime.date' object has no attribute 'tzinfo'

Solution

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/syndication/ for the requirements of def item_pubdate. This is because most feed formats technically require a full timestamp as the publish date.

The function you define item_pubdate for a feed must return a python datetime.datetime object, not a datetime.date object. The difference being of course that the object can contain a specific time in addition to the date information.

Therefore, you must use models.DateTimeField instead of models.DateField.

If you are stuck using the models.DateField, then you can have your feed class do the conversion:

from datetime import datetime, time

def item_pubdate(self, item):
    return datetime.combine(item.posted, time())

And that should get your date converted to a datetime so that contrib.syndication accepts it.