How to add Indian Standard Time (IST) in Django?

Question

We want to get the current time in India in our Django project. In settings.py, UTC is there by default. How do we change it to IST?

Answer 1

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Calcutta'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

This should work.

Answer 2

Change your settings.py to:

TIME_ZONE =  'Asia/Calcutta'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = False

This should work.

For more information about the TIME_ZONE in Django you can see: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#time-zone

Answer 3

Change the field TIME_ZONE in the settings.py. For the Indian standard time you will need:

TIME_ZONE =  'Asia/Kolkata'

For more information about the TIME_ZONE in Django you can see: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#time-zone

Answer 4

Use Below settings its worked for me. TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Kolkata'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = False

Answer 5

In general, Universal Time(UTC) based on the mean sidereal time as measured in Greenwich, England. It's also approximately equal to mean solar time from Greenwich. If Daylight Saving Time is in effect in the time zone, one must add 1 hour to the above standard times.

Django got all these timezone support, The django.utils timezone module, just returns datetime based on the USE TZ setting, they are simply datetime objects with timezone 'awareness'.

For IST(India Standard Time), which is UTC + 5:30, set TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Kolkata' and USE_TZ = True, also USE_I18N = True, USE_L10N = True, which are Internationalization and localization settings.

For a reference,

from django.utils import timezone
import datetime

print(timezone.now())  # The UTC time
print(timezone.localtime())  # timezone specified time,if timezone is UTC, it is same as above 
print(datetime.datetime.now())  # default localmachine time

# output
2020-12-11 09:13:32.430605+00:00
2020-12-11 14:43:32.430605+05:30  # IST is UTC+5:30
2020-12-11 14:43:32.510659

refer timezone settings in django docs for more details.

Answer 6

All the solutions given above are working.

see the code i have used to get my timezone. my timezone is Indian standard time zone.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE =  'Asia/Kolkata'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True