Re: Is models.DateTime timezone aware ?

Hi,

I did not read the details of your question, but I can tell you that Django will be timezone aware in 1.4.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.4-alpha-1/#support-for-time-zones

cheers
Ivo

On Jan 8, 2012, at 0:40 , Matěj Cepl wrote:

> I have in my first Django app this model (selection):
>
> class Post(models.Model):
> # ...
> updated = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now())
> published = models.DateTimeField(blank=True)
>
> When looking at the database dump of the generated database I see that the date is saved as timezone aware:
>
> '2008-07-10 10:00:00+02:00','2008-07-10 10:00:00+02:00'
>
> However, when in the test I try
>
> self.assertEqual(test_entry.updated,
> dateutil.parser.parse(u"2008-07-10T10:00:00+02:00"))
>
> test fails, and I can use only
>
> self.assertEqual(test_entry.updated,
> dateutil.parser.parse(u"2008-07-10T10:00:00"))
>
> What am I missing? Any thoughts, please?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Matěj
>
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