Re: Date-based generic views - UTC handling

On 07/02/10 18:28, Wayne Dyck wrote:

> Is there an easy way to format this date_field to my local time zone
> i.e. PST? I have also tried using the "date" and "time" filters within
> the template itself, however, those are still UTC.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>

Well, django-timezones has a template filter that'll show in localtime.
In general, setting django and your database to use UTC internally and
using django-timezones to format user-facing time to local time is the
sensible way to go.
http://github.com/brosner/django-timezones/

However, in your case, you may still have to write your own (possibly
genericized) view, though, if you want to offset the achive view's date
argument from its url to be in local time rather than UTC. The ones in
question are not particularly complex:

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/views/generic/date_based.py

- basically you'd just have to augment it slightly to transform its
args from your desired timezone to UTC before doing the filter,
otherwise you could get some objects from a few stray hours at the
"edges" of each month taken relative to local time. Depending on your
use case, this may not matter to you though.

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