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Reputation: 6831

How can I get the timezone aware date in django?

I am using delorean for datetime calculation in python django.

http://delorean.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html

This is what I am using:

now = Delorean(timezone=settings.TIME_ZONE).datetime
todayDate = now.date()

But I get this warning:

RuntimeWarning: DateTimeField start_time received a naive datetime (2014-12-09 00:00:00) while time zone support is active.

I want to know how to make it aware.

I tried this as well:

todayDate = timezone.make_aware(now.date(), timezone=settings.TIME_ZONE)

then I get this:

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

Upvotes: 31

Views: 30994

Answers (1)

Kevin Christopher Henry
Kevin Christopher Henry

Reputation: 48902

It's not clear whether you're trying to end up with a date object or a datetime object, as Python doesn't have the concept of a "timezone aware date".

To get a date object corresponding to the current time in the current time zone, you'd use:

# All versions of Django
from django.utils.timezone import localtime, now
localtime(now()).date()

# Django 1.11 and higher
from django.utils.timezone import localdate
localdate()

That is: you're getting the current timezone-aware datetime in UTC; you're converting it to the local time zone (i.e. TIME_ZONE); and then taking the date from that.

If you want to get a datetime object corresponding to 00:00:00 on the current date in the current time zone, you'd use:

# All versions of Django
localtime(now()).replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)

# Django 1.11 and higher
localtime().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)

Based on this and your other question, I think you're getting confused by the Delorean package. I suggest sticking with Django's and Python's datetime functionality.

Upvotes: 65

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