Django with system timezone setting vs user's individual timezones

Question

How well does Django handle the case of different timezones for each user? Ideally I would like to run the server in the UTC timezone (eg, in settings.py set TIME_ZONE=\"UTC\")

Answer 1

Looking at the django-timezones application I found that it doesn't support MySQL DBMS, since MySQL doesn't store any timezone reference within datetimes.

Well, I think I manage to work around this by forking the Brosner library and modifying it to work transparently within your models.

There, I'm doing the same thing the django translation system do, so you can get user unique timezone conversion. There you should find a Field class and some datetime utils to always get datetimes converted to the user timezone. So everytime you make a request and do a query, everything will be timezoned.

Give it a try!