Get local timezone in django

Question

I have a mysql DATETIME value that is stored in system time, UTC. I need to convert that to my local timezone in django. Here is what I currently have:

Answer 1

I have came to the same problem. In my settings, I have set the TIME_ZONE, but the time in MySql still UTC time.

# settings.py
TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Shanghai'

Then I found,in settings.py, USE_TZ has be set to False

USE_TZ = False

As pointed out by @MagicLAMP, it only works for single time zone site, please check time-zones if your site is international or if daylight savings happen where your site is used.

Answer 2

1: Define the timezone in your view

from django.utils import timezone

variable = timezone.now()

2: Then use it in your template

{% load l10n %}

Teresina, {{variable |localize}}.

Answer 3

localtime is a template filter, this may be helpful.

https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.8.4/django/utils/timezone.py#L298

Code sample:

from django.utils.timezone import localtime 

desired_datetime = localtime(stored_datetime)