Why does time still show with UTC time zone instead of settings.TIME_ZONE?

Question

I have a model that shows a short string in __str__() method of the model

def __str__(self):
    return \"Scheduled at %s\" % (self.date_time.strfti         


        

Answer 1

Django converts datetimes when displaying values with templates. If you want to do the conversion in arbitrary blocks of code, use the localtime() helper:

from django.utils.timezone import localtime

def __str__(self):
    return "Scheduled at %s" % localtime(self.date_time).strftime("%B %d %Y %I:%M %p")