Re: Feeling some serious timezone pain

Den 20/08/2014 kl. 14.22 skrev christophw <chris.whiten@gmail.com>:

> When the booking is stored, it comes back from a post and I store it in the DB as such:
>
> dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(request.POST["date"] + " " + request.POST["time"], "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
> dt = pytz.timezone("America/Toronto").localize(dt)

In my book, it's bad practice to store anything other than UTC in the database. Time localization should be done in the UI layer according to the location or preferences of the user.

Also, beware that local datetimes cannot uniquely identify a datetime during the shift from DST to normal time.

Erik

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