Changing my datetime from UTC to local time

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Hi guys has anyone ever tried this solution by Massimo & Nyphold (http://luca.dealfaro.org/code/web2py-recipes/utc-to-localtime-and-back-in-web2py)?

I tried it in my application but I must be missing a step or something because my time is NOT changing or maybe i'm just using it wrong!

Because of different time zones I wanna convert my users time stamps from the app hosters (pythonanywhere.com) time (UTC) to my time (local time):

CODE:

Model (db.py):

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
#Detecting the usertime zone
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
is_timezone_unknown = (session.user_timezone is None)
user_timezone = session.user_timezone or 'UTC'

Model (Application DB)

datetime_validator = IS_DATETIME(timezone=pytz.timezone(user_timezone), format=DATE_FORMAT)



Controller:

def set_timezone():
    """Ajax call to set the timezone information for the session."""
    tz_name = request.vars.name
    from pytz import all_timezones_set
    if tz_name in all_timezones_set:
        session.user_timezone = tz_name

View (Somewhere in the Layout):

{{if is_timezone_unknown:}}
    <script src="{{=URL('static', 'js/jstz.min.js')}}"></script>
    <script>
      $(function() {
        var tz_name = jstz.determine();
        $.get("{{=URL('default', 'set_timezone')}}", tz_name);
      });
    </script>
  {{pass}}

I wanna believe this is how this solution is used but I am not getting results!

Please assist;

Regards;

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Instead of using this method i decided to just add the time difference to the UTC time to get my local time.

import datetime
db.define_table('my_token',
    Field('purchased_on', 'datetime', default=(request.now+datetime.timedelta(hours=2)), readable=False, writable=False),
    .............
    .............
    .............


Regards;

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