If you want this to happen without the user registering and giving you an address, you could use a geolocation and ip address database. I think yahoo and google both provide these services (I used yahoo because their terms of service were less restrictive). If the user allows the browser to report a location, use that. Or if not then use the apparent IP address to estimate a time zone. Neither are fool proof and in particular a casual user to your site will likely be put off by the browser asking to share the location.
hth - Tom > On Feb 4, 2019, at 6:04 AM, Mikko Meronen <mikkovillemero...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thank you for your answer. I tried timezone.now without parentheses, but it > gave me server error. I have also tried datetime, but I face the same issue. > > The issue I have: > I want people to see what happened today in the past. So I created a database > where is a story or stories what happened in the history on this day(date). > My view should be able to pick a right story from the database based on the > users timezone. If Australian visits my webpage at this moment, he should be > able to see what happened on February 5 in the past (it's already February 5 > there). However he sees what happened on February 4, because it is February 4 > here (in Finland or England, not sure what timezone I'm using). So I want to > make my view to understand the end user's local time, so it can pick the > right story from the database for the webpage visitor. > > -Mikko > > ma 4. helmik. 2019 klo 10.15 'Amitesh Sahay' via Django users > (django-users@googlegroups.com <mailto:django-users@googlegroups.com>) > kirjoitti: > Hello Mikko, > > There are basically two ways which I know . One is the timezone module that > you are using another is datetime module. I believe that timezone module is > more effective one. > But instead of calling timezone.now() , call timezone.now. > > Or what is the exact issue are you facing? > > > Regards, > Amitesh Sahay > 91-750 797 8619 > > > On Monday, 4 February, 2019, 12:30:07 AM IST, Mikko Meronen > <mikkovillemero...@gmail.com <mailto:mikkovillemero...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Is there any easy way in Django to catch end user's local time when end user > access the webpage? > > I have read django documentation and tried to google solutions, but I get > quite confused. Below you will find my code. In short the code should show a > story on my webpage what happened in the past on the current day. However it > doesn't take into account the endusers local time, and thus doesn't work > properly. > > > Views.py > from django.utils import timezone > > t = timezone.now() [This should somehow react to endusers local time] > dm = t.strftime('%m-%d') > history = history.objects.filter(monthday__exact=dm) > historystory = random.sample(list(history), 1) > args = {'historystory':historystory} > return render(request, "news/home.html", args) > > home.html > [in html I have just the basic things to show the content] > > <div class="card"> > <div class="card-body"> > {% for x in historystory %} > <h4 class="card-text"> {{ x.title }} </h4> > <h4 class="card-text"> {{ x.subtitle }} > </h4> > <p class="card-text"> {{ x.content }} </p> > {% endfor %} > </div> > </div> > > > Settings.py > LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us' > TIME_ZONE = 'UTC' > USE_I18N = True > USE_L10N = True > USE_TZ = True > > You can check my webpage (http://www.topithenewsdoggy.com/ > <http://www.topithenewsdoggy.com/>) to get better understanding what I'm > doing. 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