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I want to set Django timezone so that clock should remain consistent with local time in Florida, which is Eastern+Daylight Savings Time (DST). Please suggest the changes to the Django settings timezone such that it is consistent with this time zone; currently the django is set for EST (Eastern Standard Time) rather than EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). It should automatically change when we enter/leave DST.
# Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
# although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
# If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your
# system time zone.
TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'
I am running my application in amazon ubuntu. What is the best time_zone to use for Florida local time. I am using Django 1.5.
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Time zone support is disabled by default. To enable it, set USE_TZ = True in your settings file. In Django 5.0, time zone support will be enabled by default. Time zone support uses zoneinfo , which is part of the Python standard library from Python 3.9.
Most of Florida is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC−05:00, DST UTC−04:00).
Django's timezone is set to UTC by default.
Correct timezone name (from tz database) for Florida is "America/New_York", simply put that into your TIME_ZONE setting instead of "America/Chicago"
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