#27082: Make timezone.localtime() default to timezone.now() when no value is
given
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Reporter: bmispelon | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Utilities | Version: 1.10
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by jdufresne):
I don't think this is about naive vs aware, but about accuracy. If a
server's time zone is different than `settings.TIME_ZONE`, then it is
important to be able to answer the question "what is today in the the
timezone of `settings.TIME_ZONE`?" accurately. Near midnight different
time zones will have different values for "today". This becomes useful
when comparing other stored dates against "today", displaying "today", or
storing "today" in the database. I have the following two convenience
functions in my application to help make this job easier. For my
application, they are always preferred over `datetime.date.today()`, etc.
They are heavily used.
{{{
def local_date():
return timezone.localtime(timezone.now()).date()
def local_time():
return timezone.localtime(timezone.now()).time()
}}}
So I personally also see some value to this suggestion.
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