django.utils.timezone returning naive date?

Question

using django 1.4 I have a model with a datetimefield. I imported django.utils.timezone to use as the default value.

from django.utils import timezone
date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)

however I still receive the warning about DateTimeField received naive date. i have set USE_TZ to true so it should be returning aware datetimes

Answer 1

djangos putting in a default date value that isn't tz aware because the field isnt nullable by default. setting null to true means it will just set the date to to NULL instead so the warning isnt raised:

 date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now, null=True)