django admin datetime widget NOT using UTC time?

[est]

Hi guys,

I am using Django 1.2 which a model has the following field

my_time = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now())

I don't use "auto_now_add=True" because I want it to be editable in admin.

To my horror, Django can't handle timezone.

When adding a new model, this field is using America/Chicago time, so I changed settings.py TIMEZONE to None

Then it's using UTC time, when I click add a new model in Django model, it's dislayed as UTC time

Then problem is, when I click the default datetime admin widget, the "Now" button, it using my browser local time. When you save this model, it actually saves your LOCAL time to database as UTC time

So this creates so much confusion to admin as well as user.

I think timezone should be handled in clien widget, because you really can toUTCString() as well as tolocalTimeString() in javascript. The backend should always send/recieve UTC time.

Besides, the time zone info browser sends to backend is not reliable and incomplete.

Is there a fix for this? 

Thanks!

Regards,

est

[william ratcliff]

Is it possible to override how the admin interacts with a particular date field (for example, to transform it given a user supplied function)?

William

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