Do you mean something like this?
ValueError: astimezone() cannot be applied to a naive datetime
This just means that the datetime instance you're working with, has no
timezone associated with it :-)
-- Horst
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right, so it doesn't automatically assign timezone information to it?
> I've seen some other examples where people have two/three fields just
> to store the timezone and date but I'd rather not have to go through
> all of that.
>
> At work at the moment, but will try this when I get home :)
>
> Any idea what is means by "naive datetime"?
>
> On Jun 13, 9:16 am, "Horst Gutmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From what I can see in the database, DateTime stores its content in
>> the timezone specified in the settings.py by default. So when you
>> fetch a datetime from the database you have to associated the
>> respective timezone with that datetime instance:
>>
>> tzedate = edate.replace(tzinfo=gettz(settings.TIMEZONE))
>> tz = gettz('America/New_York')
>> edatetz = tzedate.astimezone(tz)
>>
>> Just a wild guess, though.
>>
>> -- Horst
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi Guys,
>>
>> > I want to convert a datetime field for an entry in my database to a
>> > specified timezone. Here is the code I have so far:
>>
>> > from dateutil.parser import *
>> > from dateutil.tz import *
>> > from datetime import *
>>
>> > event = get_object_or_404(Event, id__exact=eventid)
>> > edate = event.date
>> > tz = gettz('America/New_York')
>> > edatetz = edate.astimezone(tz)
>>
>> > Now, when I do this, I get something along the lines of "naive
>> > datetime" for the edate variable. However, if I change the edate
>> > variable to the following line of code, it works:
>>
>> > edate = datetime.now(tz=gettz('UTC'))
>>
>> > Any ideas why this is happening? Is it the way I am storing the
>> > datetime in my MySQL database? I'm using a standard datetime field -
>> > is it missing something?
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> > Chris
> >
>
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