Django default=timezone.now() saves records using “old” time

Question

This issue has been occurring on and off for a few weeks now, and it\'s unlike any that has come up with my project.

Two of the models that are used have a timestam

Answer 1

Just set the parameter auto_now_add like this.

timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

Update:

Please don't use auto_now_add. It is not the recommended way, instead do this:

from django.utils import timezone

timestamp = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)

Answer 2

Just ran into this last week for a field that had default=date.today(). If you remove the parentheses (in this case, try default=timezone.now) then you're passing a callable to the model and it will be called each time a new instance is saved. With the parentheses, it's only being called once when models.py loads.