Django-rest-framework timezone aware renderers/parsers

Question

I\'m building an app that would serve people located in different places arround the world.
I\'m using Django-Rest-Framwork for the communication between the clients and

Answer 1

Since Django REST Framework v3.8.0(released in May, 2018), you don't need a custom DateTimeField any more.

In previous versions, Django REST Framework only convert native datetime to timezone aware datetime when parsing the date(DateTimeField.to_internal_value()), but do not convert when rendering the datatime field(DateTimeField.to_representation()). This is fixed in DRF v3.8.0.

You may need to change the following settings:

1. USE_TZ must be True
2. set TIME_ZONE to specify a default timezone
3. set REST_FRAMEWORK.DATETIME_FORMAT to the format that fits your frontend code.