At this stage, we just have some small applications using SQLite. I've noticed that I am always getting UTC despie what I set with time_zone. By last night I'd accepted the idea of using UTC internally and started looking into pytz to faciliate interface conversion, so I think I'm on the same track your suggesting. Still confused by the difference between view and admin. Thanks for your feedback.
Brian On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:22 PM, David De La Harpe Golden < david.delaharpe.gol...@ichec.ie> wrote: > > BEC wrote: > > > Any idea on what is going on here? I'm particularly perplexed as to > > why the admin page and my view are giving different times. > > > > That does sound weird. > > What database are you using? > > Not an immediate help, but the sane way to handle timezones in django in > my experience: > > (0) don't use windows on the server, if you are, set the system clock to > utc and live with it. > (1) preferably be using postgresql (good timezone handling) > (2) set django settings TIME_ZONE = 'UTC' and work in utc internally. > django will [try to, bearing in mind Graham's post] set TZ - and will > also tell postgresql to expect and return times in utc over the wire > (explicitly executes a "SET TIME ZONE" command in the connection). > django models.DateTimeFields become "timestamp with time zone" > postgresql fields, so your database now uses UTC timestamps that say > they are UTC and everything just works. Only now everything's in UTC... > so... > > (3) use django-timezones (django helpers around pytz) to localize > user-facing time and accept local time inputs > http://github.com/brosner/django-timezones/ > > Even though my apps only really operate in one timezone, it's a $%^£ing > DST timezone (as is America/New_York), so the above is a real win. > > Of course, you may be stuck dealing with a legacy db with non-utc > time. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
