Re: Time Zone Problem when following on tutorial

Thanks, Mike. 

I still have a question. In your code, which part should I change in order to set the time zone to Asia/Shanghai?

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 7:26:52 AM UTC+8, Mike Dewhirst wrote:

On 24/06/2014 8:34 AM, Jerry Wu wrote:
> Dear every one,
>
> I am following the tutorial
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/intro/tutorial01/> and meet with
> some problem with Time Zone part. Since I am in Shanghai, China (UTC+8)
> , I think it is necessary to reset the time part.
>
> Below is what I tried but failed with valuerror incorrect timezone setting:
>
> TIME_ZONE="UTC+8"
> TIME_ZONE="UTC+8:00"
>
> I have tried "Asia/Shanghai", it works, but I think it is kind of
> out-of-date style due to the description
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/settings/#std:setting-TIME_ZONE>
> in the tutorial.

This a very good question. Especially considering the variability
between databases. At least I think so - I use Postgres and that seems
to store times in UTC. In my case it is accidentally just what I want so
I'm not changing anything.

But just in case, I use the following utility everywhere ...

import pytz
from datetime import datetime

def when():
     return datetime.now(tz=pytz.utc)

I wish I understood (or had the time and brainspace to commit to memory)
exactly how it all works. I think the target audience for the
documentation is somewhat smarter than I.

Mike
>
> Could some one give me a hint?
>
> Thans in advance.
>
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