Re: usage of TIME_ZONE and zone-to-zone conversion

2010-04-28 Thread David De La Harpe Golden
Thanks for the tip on pytz. It might be what I need. See django-timezones, django-related helpers around pytz: http://github.com/brosner/django-timezones its LocalizedDateTimeField model/form fields construct non-naive python datetimes with pytz tzinfo. (see its tests.py for some additio

Re: usage of TIME_ZONE and zone-to-zone conversion

2010-04-27 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Peter Herndon wrote: > Hi Shawn, > > http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ looks like it would be useful for converting > time zone strings. > > The one thing I keep hearing, though, whenever anyone brings up time zones > here on django-users is: "*ALWAYS* store dates in

Re: usage of TIME_ZONE and zone-to-zone conversion

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Herndon
Hi Shawn, http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ looks like it would be useful for converting time zone strings. The one thing I keep hearing, though, whenever anyone brings up time zones here on django-users is: "*ALWAYS* store dates in UTC, then convert as needed". Don't know how useful that is, but