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Daria
Daria

Reputation: 753

django.utils.timezone.activate effect

I have a question concerning django.utils.timezone package.

I am at UTC+7 timezone. Thus, if it is 16:00 local time, timezone.now() returns 9:00. That is just fine.

However when I do the following:

current_tz = pytz.timezone('Europe/Moscow')  # UTC + 4
timezone.activate(current_tz)

I expect timezone.now() to return 12:00 at 16:00 localtime, but the output remains the same "9:00".

Does timezone.activate() affects on anything at all?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 4979

Answers (2)

radtek
radtek

Reputation: 36270

This is what works for me, and I stumbled on this question when trying to find out how to change the timezone in the admin view in the change list. Here is my full example:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.utils import timezone

from audience.models import ClientTrending

TRENDING_TZ = 'Canada/Eastern'


class ClientTrendingAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    """Admin Interface configuration for model"""

    def get_changelist_instance(self, request):
        timezone.activate(TRENDING_TZ)
        return super().get_changelist_instance(request)



admin.site.register(ClientTrending, ClientTrendingAdmin)

You can also pass the timezone string name value as I am using above.

Upvotes: 0

fon
fon

Reputation: 151

timezone.now() explicitly returns UTC time.

After timezone.activate, then timezone.localtime(timezone.now()) returns the output you want.

Upvotes: 13

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