DateTime issues in django xlsxwriter

Question

I am trying to create an export to excel functionality in my django view as follows:

def export_myreport(request, sd, ed):
    from xlsxwriter.workbook impor         


        

Answer 1

Excel, and thus XlsxWriter, doesn't support timezones in dates/times.

So you will need to remove or adjust the timezone from the datetime before passing it to XlsxWriter.

Something like this from the pytz docs:

dt = datetime(2005, 3, 1, 14, 13, 21, tzinfo=utc)
naive = dt.replace(tzinfo=None)

Probably this would be better handled in Django though rather than adjusting all datetime data prior to passing it to XlsxWriter. Maybe someone else can add a suggestion on that.