timezone doesn't change

[mehrad nayeri]

Hi,

I'm using django 1.11.17 and I've changed TIME_ZONE in settings.py to 'Asia/Tehran' but django.utils.timezone.now() returns UTC time.

How I have to fix it? Why it doesn't work? Does it work on newer release?

Please answer

[Andréas Kühne]

Hi,

That is actually the expected behaviour - django.utils.timezone.now() should always return a UTC time.

You should always communicate in the backend with UTC time - saving everything to the database and so on - it should always be in UTC. 

When you want to present a time in a template or to the user you need to do this according to the documentation: 

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/i18n/timezones/

There is a lot of information there regarding handling timezones - but now() will always return a UTC (if timezone support is on :))

Regards,

Andréas

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