I'd like to have my Admin site use a different default timezone than the rest of my django app.
I prefer the backend and API to operate in UTC, because this is a general good practice for geographically distributed teams. However admin users (based in a specific timezone) find this confusing, and would like to see their datetimes in a local timezone (say, Pacific Time). The docs state that a local time can be set using activate(): https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/utils/#django.utils.timezone.activate Specifically: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/i18n/timezones/#default-current-time-zone says "You should set the current time zone to the end user’s actual time zone with activate() <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/utils/#django.utils.timezone.activate>. Otherwise, the default time zone is used.". Where should this be done to set the timezone only in the admin? Simon Wilson has a suggestion to set this globally using Middleware: https://til.simonwillison.net/django/show-timezone-in-django-admin I'm wondering if there's a better way that won't affect the TZ of non-admin requests. It seems that this should be configurable somewhere on the AdminSite. Has anyone made this work specifically for the Django Admin? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/7d09876e-5cdf-4010-abb1-bdbf5a71f41fn%40googlegroups.com.
