Re: Having trouble understanding Timezone

2016-01-07 Thread Ryan Causey
Thank you everyone for your responses. I believe I have a clear understanding of how it all interacts and what I need to do on my end. -Ryan Causey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receivi

Re: Having trouble understanding Timezone

2016-01-07 Thread Juan Miguel Paredes
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Ryan Causey wrote: > 1. The documentation says that when USE_TZ = True that "Django stores > datetime information in UTC in the database, uses time-zone-aware datetime > objects internally, and translates them to the end user’s time zone in > templates and forms."

Re: Having trouble understanding Timezone

2016-01-06 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Ryan I too went through USE_TZ and time zones etc but too long ago to remember enough to answer your questions with any authority. However this works for me ... USE_TZ = True TIME_ZONE = 'UTC' At 18:23 (AESummertime) here in Melbourne Australia I just created a new record in my Postgres 9.3

Re: Having trouble understanding Timezone

2016-01-06 Thread Avraham Serour
1. you don't need to st the TIME_ZONE setting, leave at default 2. honestly I don't know how setting the timezone in postgres influences the data, but I believe it doesn't need to be in sync with django settings. 3. yes, this is a good recommendation success Avraham On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:36 AM

Having trouble understanding Timezone

2016-01-06 Thread Ryan Causey
Hello, I'm new to Python and Django so please bear with me on this one. I've been reading the Django docs, googling, and searching this mailing list on the proper configuration and usage of Django when USE_TZ = True. However, I'm still a bit fuzzy on things and would like clarification on the