Here's more info: $ ./manage.py shell Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 23 2007, 14:22:20) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. (InteractiveConsole) >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.today() datetime.datetime(2008, 8, 26, 3, 25, 47, 588753)
$ python Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 23 2007, 14:22:20) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.today() datetime.datetime(2008, 8, 25, 21, 26, 21, 383524) Keith On Aug 25, 11:11 pm, lingrlongr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a little confused about the TIME_ZONE setting in settings.py. I > originally had it set to 'America/New_York', because that's the time > zone where I'm located, but I noticed the times were ~4 hours off when > I would save an object that had a DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) > field in the model. Instead I tried to set the TIME_ZONE value to > where the web server was, Utah, so I used 'America/Denver'. > > I saved an object while configured for Denver, timestamp was for > 2:40am. I changed the setting back to New_York and saved another > object, the the timestamp was for 2:52am. Local time for me was > ~10pm. > > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 23 2007, 14:22:20) > [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> > import datetime > >>> datetime.datetime.today() > > datetime.datetime(2008, 8, 25, 21, 9, 15, 497672) > > $ date > Mon Aug 25 21:09:45 MDT 2008 > > I would like the times to shown as Eastern Time zone. What should I > set the TIME_ZONE setting to? > > Keith --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
